Events

WHAT: 70 Years Too Long: National Action to End the Korean War

Join the Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network, Peace Treaty Now and the Korea Peace Network in Washington DC to raise a unified voice for an end to the Korean War and peace on the Korean Peninsula.

WHERE: Washington, DC

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

3/15: March and rally at the White House

3/16: Annual Korea Peace Network Conference

3/17: Korea peace advocacy on the Hill

WHAT: A discussion of the new report The Human Costs and Gendered Impact of Sanctions on North Korea.

WHERE: Church Center for the United Nations, 2nd Floor, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York

SPEAKERS:

• Henri Féron, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy
• Kee B. Park, MD, MPH, Director of the DPRK Program at the Korean American Medical Association and Lecturer at Harvard Medical School
• Joy Yoon, Co-founder of Ignis Community and PYSRC Director of Educational Therapy
• Introduction by Liz Bernstein, Executive Director, Nobel Women’s Initiative
• Moderated by Yifat Susskind, Executive Director, MADRE

Event is free and open to the media and public.

WHAT: Press conference featuring women leaders calling for an end to the Korean War and the creation of a peace process that includes women

WHERE: Across the street from the U.S. Embassy in Gwanghwamun Plaza, South Korea

SPEAKERS:

• Christine Ahn (Executive Director of Women Cross DMZ)
• Kozue Akibayashi (Doshisha University/Former President of WILPF)
• Mimi Han (Executive Board Member, The National YWCA of Korea; Vice President, World YWCA)
• Gloria Steinem (Feminist scholar activist)
• Moderated by Mi-kyung Han (Standing Representative, Korea Women’s Alliance)

WHAT: Gloria Steinem Keynote Speech at Let’s DMZ

WHERE: KINTEX Exhibition Center, 217-60, Kintex-ro, Ilsanseo-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea