“[Women Cross DMZ’s] dedicated, untiring effort to bring peace to the Korean peninsula is greatly admired. Although much of today’s focus on the peninsula continues to be the North’s nuclear program, it is peace that will have to be the final goal. I think Women Cross DMZ won’t rest until it is achieved.”
— Siegfried S. Hecker, Senior Fellow Emeritus, Stanford University and Director Emeritus, Los Alamos National Laboratory
“Compton Foundation supports Women Cross DMZ with unrestricted multiyear grants because we trust them to determine how best to use the resources to achieve their mission and we know that building power for change takes time. Women Cross DMZ has a track record of doing what needs to be done as conditions change and they are in it for the long haul. As funders, we should be too.”
— Ellen Friedman, Executive Director, Compton Foundation
“What is taking place is as a result of your bravery and your work. And you’re really a true testament to what power can do if women organize…. There are many, many who understand now what you have done and what you have meant to the cause of peace and reunification on the Korean Peninsula. So I just want to celebrate your courage and just say thank you.”
— Rep. Barbara Lee
“Women Cross DMZ is a perfect example of what people can do to try and bring the two Koreas together and to gain knowledge of the ordinary folks in North Korea… I greatly respect what that organization has done to try and bring the two Koreas together over recent years.”
— Bruce Cumings, Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of History and the College, University of Chicago
“Women Cross DMZ, in a comparatively short period of time, has done more to advance and imbed the issue of peace on the Peninsula amongst civil society than most organisations with ten times their size and resources”
— Glyn Ford, Founder and Director, Track2Asia, UK and former Member of the European Parliament
“The Special Rapporteur also met with members of Women Cross DMZ. In 2015, 30 women from 15 countries crossed the demilitarized zone, demonstrating their commitment to peacemaking. This unprecedented movement engaged with women inside the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and has now converged with other groups into a global coalition of women’s peace organizations calling for an end to the Korean War, to sign a peace agreement, and to include women in peace processes. The Special Rapporteur calls upon concerned Governments to hear the message from this movement.”
— Tomás Ojea Quintana, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea