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'''Lee Ae-ran''' ({{Korean|hangul=이애란}}; born 1964) is an activist.<ref name=state>{{cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/s/gwi/programs/iwoc/2010/bio/137496.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113191544/http://www.state.gov/s/gwi/programs/iwoc/2010/bio/137496.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-01-13|title=Dr. Lee Ae-ran, Republic of Korea|publisher=state.gov|accessdate=2014-10-05}}</ref> After her grandparents defected to [[South Korea]], she and her family were sent to a North Korean labor camp.<ref name=state /> She was imprisoned for eight years.<ref name=state /><ref name="ait">{{cite web|url=http://iipdigital.ait.org.tw/st/english/article/2011/05/20110519091211enaj0.364361.html|title=Lee Ae-ran Helps North Koreans Build a Brighter Future &#124;{{pipe}} IIP Digital|publisher=iipdigital.ait.org.tw|accessdate=2014-10-05}}</ref> In 1997, she ran away to South Korea after an American relative published a memoir stating that Lee's father was involved in anti-regime efforts.<ref name=state />

In 2005, she founded the Global Leadership Scholarship Program, which grants North Korean students scholarships to learn English.<ref name=episcopalchurch>{{cite web|url=http://archive.episcopalchurch.org/81803_120929_ENG_HTM.htm|title=Episcopal News Service - DIOCESAN DIGEST|publisher=archive.episcopalchurch.org|accessdate=2014-10-05}}</ref> In 2008, she became the first North Korean defector to run for a seat in the National Assembly.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=De-Bordering Korea: Tangible and Intangible Legacies of the Sunshine Policy|author1=Gelézeau, V.|author2=De Ceuster, K.|author3=Delissen, A.|date=2013|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781136192531|url=httphttps://books.google.co.ukcom/books?id=c5I25t3DrW4C|page=100|accessdate=2014-10-05}}</ref> In 2009, Lee became the first female North Korean defector to earn a doctorate, which she earned from [[Ewha Womans University]] in the subject of food and nutrition.<ref name=wordpress>{{cite web|url=http://mouonekorea.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/in-the-news-north-korean-defectors-emerge-from-periphery/|title=In the News &#8211;– North Korean defectors emerge from periphery &#124;{{pipe}} MOU OneKorea|date=20 April 2012 |publisher=mouonekorea.wordpress.com|accessdate=2014-10-05}}</ref> Also in 2009, she founded the Hana Defector Women's Organization, an NGO that gives North Korean women living in South Korea job training, childcare, educational support, and human rights training.<ref name=episcopalchurch />

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[[Category:North Korean women activists]]