Oct. 4 (Wed)
09:00 - 12:00
Side Events
KOR, ENG
Human Rights Tour will offer a chance to travel back to May 1980, a critical juncture of the Korean modern history in which people fought and struggled for democratization. Human Rights Tour I will give participants the opportunity to visit historical sites of the May 18 Democratization Movement, listening to stories from the time and taking a moment to remember the victims.
※ This tour is only available to invited participants.
Oct. 5 (Thu)
13:00 - 16:00
Room 214
KOR
Oct. 4 (Wed)
13:30 - 15:30
Side Events
KOR, ENG
Human Rights Tour will offer a chance to travel back to May 1980, a critical juncture of the Korean modern history in which people fought and struggled for democratization. Human Rights Tour II will give its participants the chance to take a look at the May 18 Liberty Park and have a conversation with survivors who participated in the Democratization Movement.
Oct. 4 (Wed)
14:00 - 16:00
Room 212-213
KOR
JEONG HoeranLecturer, Gwangju Regional Office of NHRC of Korea
Oct. 4 (Wed)
16:00 - 18:00
Convention Hall
KOR (KSL, CC), ENG
KANG Gi-jungMayor, Gwangju Metropolitan City
The 13th World Human Rights Cities Forum Opening RemarksJEONG MuchangChairperson, Gwangju Metropolitan Council
The 13th World Human Rights Cities Forum Congratulatory RemarksLEE Jeong-seonSuperintendent, Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education
The 13th World Human Rights Cities Forum Congratulatory RemarksGabriela RamosAssistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO
Nada Al-NashifUN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights
The 13th World Human Rights Cities Forum Congratulatory RemarksHa-joon ChangProfessor of Economics, SOAS University of London
KIM JoongseopChairperson, WHRCF Planning Committee
KANG Gi-jungMayor, Gwangju Metropolitan City
Resilience city responding to poverty and inequalitySumastroMayor, Singkawang, Indonesia
How the tolerance could contribute to economic development, poverty eradication and human rights enforcements in Singkawang cityKarolina ZdrodowskaDeputy Mayor, Warsaw, Poland
KIM MikyungHead, Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Eunpyeonggu, for poverty eradiation and equal society!Vicki FelthausDeputy Mayor for Youth, Schools and Democracy, Leipzig, Germany
Integrated approaches against social segregation and child poverty
#Youth #Inequality #Democracy
Morten KjaerumDirector, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
Full PaperOct. 5 (Thu)
09:00 - 11:30
Room 302-303
KOR, ENG
Residents in the areas pay high rental fees compared to narrow spaces of the houses, however, they are not properly managed at all, which leads to a plenty of critical safety issues. In reality, the houses in the Jjokbangchon do have a very restricted space even not allowable to put or store commodities except a sleeping space. Most of them do not have windows and the aisle between the buildings are too narrow to get the houses enough natural lights. Also, the houses are poorly ventilated, which could cause health problems for the residents as well. In this regard, this session was designed to guarantee a dignified life for the Jjokbangchon residents by addressing overall issues of the residents including their physical and mental health.
MOON SeonhwaChairperson, Planning and General Affairs, Gwangju Dong-gu Council
LEE DonghyunActivist, The Homeless Action
History and Reality of Jjokbang Villages (referring to a village of tiny one-room residences (jjokbang) in Low-income Neighborhoods) – Focusing on Seoul#Jjokbang #Development
Teija OjankoskiCEO, Y-Foundation
How to End Homelessness, Case Finland#Homelessness #HousingFirst #HumanRight
KIM JoojinResearch Fellow, Land and Housing Institute
Current status and challenges of public housing projects in downtown jjokbang village - Focusing on public housing project around jjokbang village in Yeongdeung-po#JjokbangVillageInYeongdeung-po #ResidentsOfJjokbang #PublicHousingProject
KIM YongheeSecretary General, Gwangju Social Innovators Network
Survey and research on informal residence (motel or jjokbang) in Daein-dong and Gyerim 1-dong, Dong-gu, Gwangju#Humidity #IsolatedLivingCondition #Loneliness
YOON JongcheolDirector, Gwangju Support Center for the Homeless
Discussion PaperPARK JongminPolicy Director, Joeun Empathy Research Institute
We forced them into exile in the downtownOct. 5 (Thu)
09:00 - 12:00
Room 212-213
ENG
The Human Rights Paper Session provides a space for students, academics, activists, and practitioners to share their studies, with a view of spotlighting and providing solutions to the challenges of achieving more inclusive, human rights focused cities. The session gives recognition to the urgency of making our cities inclusive spaces as a path to achieving human rights for all. Key topics of discussion will include undocumented migrants, access to services (e.g. energy, healthcare), climate justice, the role of the third sector, persons with disabilities, minority groups, and the measurement of urban inclusivity.
BAE JeonghwanProfessor, Center for Regional Development, Chonnam National University
Alan BrownResearch Professor, Center for Regional Development, Chonnam National University
Morten KjaerumDirector, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
David Felice Falivene BaptistaPhD Candidate, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Campinas State University
Employing Energy Efficiency to decrease Energy Poverty: a proposition of public policy to create renewable local energy communities in socially vulnerable areas
#EnergyPoverty #PublicPolicies #RenewableEnergy
Phuong Nong Thi NghiResearch Management Officer, VinUniversity
Ensuring Women's Safety for an Inclusive Hanoi - Voices of Female University Students#InclusiveCity #Women #Safety
Tram NguyenAcademic Officer, VinUniversity
Ensuring Women's Safety for an Inclusive Hanoi - Voices of Female University Students#InclusiveCity #Safety #Vietnam
Namira FathyaResearch Assistant, Kota Kita Foundation
Navigating a Hearing City - Reflections on Urban Inclusivity from the Eyes of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Youths in Surakarta, Indonesia#AccessToInformation #BahasaIsyaratIndonesia #ParticipatoryMethodology
Wulandari Anindya KanaCommunications Officer, Kota Kita Foundation
Navigating a Hearing City - Reflections on Urban Inclusivity from the Eyes of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Youths in Surakarta, Indonesia#AccessToInformation #IndonesianSignLanguage #Photovoice
Elin ChoiIntern, Austrian Institute of Technology
15-Minute City Concept in Relation to Human Rights and Inclusive City#UrbanPlanning #15minuteCityConcept #Diversity
Indra Jaya WiranataLecturer, University of Lampung
Grassroots Cohesiveness: An Important Indicator in Solving The City Waste Problem
#GrassrootsCohesiveness #CityWasteProblem #WasteManagement
Sarah HertwigProject Officer, UNESCO Centre for the Promotion of Human Rights at the Local and Regional Level
The Potential of Human Rights Budgeting for Inclusive Cities#HumanRightsBudgeting #HumanRights #LocalLevel
Gerd OberleitnerProfessor, University of Graz
Oct. 5 (Thu)
09:00 - 15:00
Side Events
KOR, IDN
Human Rights Eco Policy Tour is a visit to the various sites that carry out environmental policies in Gwangju. The visit will also include a Q&A session with the persons in charge. The tour will focus on exploring the impact of Gwangju Pureungil Park and Bitgoeul Citizen’s Sunlight Power Plant on the quality of life of Gwangju citizens.
※ This tour is only available to the Indonesian delegates.
Oct. 5 (Thu)
09:00 - 11:30
Room 209-210
KOR (KSL, CC), ENG
Poverty and inequalities are structural issues that hamper a sustainable development of cities. They also have to be dealt more seriously in that they could be passed down on to the next generation. In reality, however, inequality exists in education sector, too. What makes matters worse is the growing trends of overemphasizing one’s academic background and depending on excessive private education. Educational inequalities negatively affect local marginalization and donut city issues, which becomes a major cause of undermining a sustainable development of nations and cities.
LEE Jeong-seonSuperintendent, Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education
HONG Gwan-pyoDirector, The Center for Public Interest & Human Rights, Chonnam National University
KIM Jin-yeongProfessor, Konkuk University
Why should we worry about the issue of educational inequality?BAEK Byoung-buSenior Researcher, Gyeonggi Institute of Education
Reality of Education Inequality in SchoolJUNG YongjuPrinciapal, Seoul Cheonwang Elementary School
Inclusive Future Education Led by Local Governments -Future Education Strategy through Overcoming Multi-dimensional Inequality in Education-SHIN HaeyoungStudent, Gwangju Speer Girls' Middle School
HAN BinStudent, Salesio Girls' High School
YANG MihyeonTeacher, Salesian Middle School
KIM Sohui, Gwangju Girls' Commercial High School
Oct. 5 (Thu)
10:00 - 12:00
Room 214
KOR
NOH Junghwan
CHON JinheeFormer Director, Ulsan Human Rights Center, WHRCF Planning Committee
Oct. 5 (Thu)
13:00 - 15:30
Online Meeting
ENG
It is also necessary to note that by violations of human rights, we mean not only civil and political rights, but also economic, and social-cultural rights, and also every form of discrimination. Still, the violations of civil and political rights are at the core of factors that cause poverty by manipulations of illegal arrests, illegal detentions, torture, extrajudicial killings (including enforced disappearances), denial of a fair trial, suppressions of freedom of association, assembly, and expression, and also obstructions of free and fair elections. Entire economies are re-adjusted in a way to deprive even necessities for the people and particularly those who are relatively poor. Anti-terrorism laws and public or national security laws are used as means of silence in the protests of the poor. The entire humanity is threatened, and all natural resources and creating the possibilities of global disasters far more frightening than what had been seen in the past. The most important response should be to save lives and livelihoods, the right to food, the rights of children, right to education and health by measures to protect the livelihoods of both men and women.
SHIN GyongguExecutive Director, Asian Legal Resource Centre - Gwangju
Mohara Prakash
Basil FernandoDirector, Policy and Programme Development
#HumanRightsBudgeting #Poverty #Asia
MD AshrafuzzamanAdvocacy Officer, Asian Legal Resource Centre
ChrisbiantoroLocal officer, Asian Human Rights Commission
#HumanRights
Inoma KarunatilakeExecutive Director, Rule of Law Forum
#Women #Children
Niroshan EkanayakaExecutive Director, SAMADANA Centre
#HumanRights #MinorityRights #VulnerableCommunity
Salina KafleDirector, Human Rights & Justice Centre
#HumanRights #Nepal #Violations
Oct. 5 (Thu)
13:00 - 15:00
Room 302-303
KOR (KSL, CC), ENG (CC)
Cities worldwide are uniquely positioned to use their considerable purchasing power, including of information and communications technologies(ICT), to advance the human rights and digital inclusion of persons with disabilities and older persons. G3ict, through its Smart Cities for All global initiative, is partnering with the United Cities and Local Governments and World Economic Forum Secretariat for the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance, to help cities worldwide adopt technology procurement policies that support the localization of human rights frameworks to ensure greater equity and inclusion in our communities.
Federico Batista PoitierAccessibility Policy Officer, UCLG
Monica DuhemDirector, Global Advisory Center, G3ict
Caroline Awuor AgwandaGovernor's Adviser on Disability, Women, and Youth, County Government of Kisumu
The inclusion of people with disabilities and accessibility of technology
#AccessibilityIsHumanRights
KIM ChunsooTeam Leader, SK telecom
#BarrierFree #PersonWithDisabilities #AI
Naim Erol ÖzgünerHead, IT Department, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Oct. 5 (Thu)
13:00 - 16:00
Room 209-210
KOR (KSL)
Older persons have been deprived of their dignified life in old ages. The vulnerability has aggravated amid the covid-19 and climate crisis. Korea has had the highest poverty and suicide rates around the globe. Older persons abuse has been growing every year. Likewise, there are mounting human rights issues related to older persons that we have to address promptly. We have to ensure older persons could lead a dignified life in old ages and not to lose the dignity in the process toward death. Especially, for older persons inevitably put into a vulnerable situation, we will look for ways to publicly discuss and set human rights agenda spanning overall issues accordingly.
LEE HyegyeongRepresentative, ASEM Global Ageing Center
PARK YeongranProfessor, Kangnam University
KIM TaewanSenior Researcher, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs
LEE HaenaProfessor, Sungkyunkwan University
JUCH Myongyong Representative, Korean Association of Retired Persons
CHO HyeonseRepresentative, HelpAge Korea
SO JuncholPostdoc, Ewha Institute for Age Integration Research
LEE DongwooDeputy Director, National Human Rights Commission
Oct. 5 (Thu)
14:00 - 17:30
Room 214
KOR
This session aims to understand the complexity of human rights issues caused by poverty and inequality, and to examine each city's policy implementation experience, regional strategy development, administrative and political relief, and guarantees to solve human rights problems faced by various population groups such as young people, the elderly, the disabled, and women. Many cities advocate a "human rights-friendly city," draw up basic human rights plans, and implement major policies. Through fact-finding surveys and expert advice, it emphasizes support for social changes such as labor, environment, youth, digital sex crimes, and policies to establish a social safety net amid the trend of low birth, aging, and single-person households. We would like to evaluate how much these attempts have contributed to the promotion of human rights of the vulnerable and seek alternatives.
LEE JinheeChairperson, Daejeon Association of Social Workers
LEE Yong-gyoProfessor, Gwangju University
#Poverty #Inequality #City
Oct. 5 (Thu)
16:00 - 18:30
Room 301-303
KOR (KSL, CC), ENG, FRA
In a global context increasing inequalities exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the commitment to social justice, climate action, peace and Human Rights matters more than ever. Local and Regional Governments(LRGs) have showcased a growing commitment to Human Rights. This commitment was reflected and further expanded through the Global Campaign “10, 100, 1000 Human Rights Cities and Territories by 2030”, launched by the UCLG-CSIPDHR in 2022. In this sense, several LRGs are already acting to link the promotion of Human Rights to different dimensions of poverty and inequalities through an intersectional approach to local action. This translates into Human-Rights-based public policies, for instance to ensure access to labor to women victims of violence; to provide housing to migrants and refugees; to improve access to education through technologies and digital innovation; as well as to improve mobility and accessibility between and within territories through public service provision.
Olivier De SchutterUN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
Morten KjaerumDirector, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
Jaleswari PramodhawardaniDeputy Chief of Staff, Executive Office of the President, Indonesia
Peter Anyang’ Nyong’oGovernor, Kisumu County
Todd HowlandChief, Development and Economic and Social Issues Branch, UN Human Rights
CHO MunyoungProfessor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Yonsei University
Human rights cities responding to poverty and inequalitiesMeghna AbrahamExecutive Director, Center for Economic and Social Rights
Sonia Francine Gaspar MarmoSecretary of Human Rights and Citizenship, São Paulo City, Brazil
Amanda Flety MartinezCoordinator, UCLG-CSIPDHR
Constanza LizanaMayor, San Antonio, Chile
Arber FetiuAdvisor in international relations, Montreal, Canada
Montreal's Access to Municipal Services Without Fear policy
#Migrants #Equality #Justice
SHIN GyongguSenior Advisor for Human Rights & International Affairs, Gwangju Metropolitan City
Attiya WarisUN Independent Expert on foreign debt, other international financial obligations and human rights
Jose CuestaLead Economist, Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice, The World Bank
Human Rights Cities Responding to Poverty and Inequalities Full Paper#HumanRightsBasedApproach #Poverty #Inequality
Oct. 6 (Fri)
09:00 - 11:30
Room 212-213
KOR
The hierarchical structure that exists in the domain of culture and art keeps female artists in an economic hierarchy and causes various problems such as sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and human rights fringement. Inequality means that there is discrimination in rights, duty, and entitlement, so it is not equal. However, the discriminatory distribution of scarce resources such as income, status, and power in a social context can also be seen as a social inequality. As a result of those unequal social sturcture, we can find various human rights issues and figure out solutions to those things.
KIM ChaeheeFestival Director, Women's Film Festival In Gwangju
LEE SanRepresentative, Genderartlab Yiro
#Gender-BasedViolence #WorldOfCultureAndArts #Inequality
LIM InzaCo-chair, Committee for Resolution of Sexual assault case resolution in theatre field at Gwangju
#WomenArtistsInGwangju #TheGuaranteeOfTheStatusAndRightsOfArtists #Discrimination
SONG JinheeRepresentative, That's not Art, that's Sexual Violence
KIM SojinIndependent Curator
Oct. 6 (Fri)
10:00 - 12:00
Room 302-303
KOR
Discussions on social inclusion of immigrants have been actively going on at local level. In particular, the issues of vulnerable health and inequal access to healthcare of immigrants have emerged at local level during COVID-19 pandemic. In reality, immigrants deemed necessary are welcomed, while those not are subject to exclusion, which makes the current situation worse. As we are prepared for the post Covid era, now is time for us to build a new blueprint based on transitional imagination and practices beyond exclusion and selective inclusion of immigration policies. The health of immigrants is not an individual matter but a shared issue of local community, which requires social practices considering it a public agenda.
CHOI SeongwooProfessor, Chosun University Medical School
CHAE DuckheeGeneral Director, Gwangju Workers Health Center
#Migrants #Health #Demand
KIM NakyungResearcher, Center for Global Diaspora studies, Chonnam National University
#Migrants #Health #SocialDeterminants
CHOI JiyeonSecretary General, Gwangju Migrant Health Center
SUN Bong-kyuResearch Professor, Chonnam National University
#HealthOfMigrants #GwangjuMigrantHealthCenter #KoryoinGwangjuClinic
KIM WansukTeam manager, Gwangju Support Center for Foreign Workers
HWANG SeonghoDirector, Gwangju Migrant Support Center
Oct. 6 (Fri)
10:30 - 12:00
Room 209-210
ENG, IDN
The whole world is facing crises such as violence, climate and economic crisis, democratic problem, Ukrainian-Russian war, energy and food problems, and the COVID-19 epidemic, which has worsened poverty and inequality. Countries all throughout the world, including local governments, are working hard to address the crisis, including Indonesia. The top priority of human rights cities is to identify human rights issues caused by poverty and inequalities and find measures in various areas such as politics, economy, society, culture, and education. Each regency/city in Indonesia has initiatives, best practices, and lessons learned to remedy the poverty and inequality in order to create more just and equal society. It is critical to discuss best practices and lessons learnt in dealing with inequality and poverty in Indonesia at the WHRCF 2023.
Gandi Sulistiyanto SoehermanAmbassador, Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Seoul, Republic of Korea
MugiyantoAdvisor on Human Rights, Executive Office of the President, Republic of Indonesia
Putu Elvina GaniCommissioner of Education and Public Awareness, Komnas HAM
Human Rights Cities as Guidance for Facing Poverty and Inequality
SumastroMayor, Singkawang, Indonesia
Break the Inequality: Empowerment of Lepers Program
Eddy Keleng Ate Berutu Regent, Dairi, Indonesia
Dairi Experience on Inequality Issues
MisthohizzamanExecutive Director, INFID
The Update of Human Rights Cities technical guide and implementations in Indonesia
Amanda Flety MartinezCoordinator, UCLG-CSIPDHR
Empowering the human rights cities movement: UCLG Charter-Agenda update & Global Campaign
Ahsan HamidiProgram Officer, The Asia Foundation
Oct. 6 (Fri)
13:00 - 15:30
Room 212-213
KOR (KSL, CC), ENG
Since the launch of Yoon Seok Yeol administration, the Korean government has paid less policy attention to addressing economic inequality, expanding welfare benefit, and to ensuring human rights. This has aggravated the issues of poverty and inequality and has put the vulnerable, especially the persons with disabilities, at the highest risk of inequality. In this situation, the socially vulnerable class at risk of the most serious inequality is the disabled. Social stigma and prejudice against the disabled, and the capitalist system have further ruled them out. In addition, the attitude to solve the problem through traditional welfare services eventually kept the disabled in poverty.
KANG MinhuiAssistant Professor, Honam University
Albin FalkmerDirector, Governance and Public Affairs, Samhall
Inclusive employment of people with disabilities#Inclusion #Employment #Disability
CHO YunhwaChief, Policy Research Independent Living Support Team, Korea Disabled People's Development Institute
The reality of poverty and income inequality for people with disabilities#Poverty #Disability #IncomeInequality
KWON HesukPrincipal Expert Advisor, Korea Employment Agency for Persons with Disabilities
Current Status and Development Path of the Government’s Employment Policy for the Persons with DisabilitiesYEOM JiaePolicy Planning Team Leader, Gwangju Metropolitan City Support Center for the Disabled
Working environment for people with disabilities at vocational rehabilitation facilitiesWOO JeonggyuActivist, Association of Right-based Public Jobs for the Disabled(ARPJD)
Proposing Value Model for Jobs of Persons with Severe Disabilities beyond Labors Centering around Capability, Rehabilitation, and Productivity : Based on public jobs personalized for persons with severe disabilities centering around their right (hereinafter referred to as right-based public jobs)KIM MokwonStaff, Amkor Korea
Discussion PaperJO EunhyeWorker of the rights-oriented public sector jobs, Yudal Center for Independent Living
Labor is self-esteemOct. 6 (Fri)
13:00 - 15:30
Room 209-210
KOR (CC), ENG
Since the adoption of UN SDGs, the international community has made transformative efforts to set a concrete direction and implement sustainable development within various policy frameworks. Korea has also carried out its own activities to achieve SDGs by 2030, centered around the Local Sustainability Alliance of Korea and its members in each province. UN explained that a systematic gender mainstreaming is essential to realizing the SDG agenda. This is the right time to explore whether the local sustainable development goals being implemented in the Korean context reflect gender perspectives, whether the local SDG5 consists of elements that can contribute to gender equality, and whether the SDG implementation indicators are properly defined.
KIM HyungwanGeneral Director, Korea Human Rights Policy Institute
CHO YoungsookRepresentative, Gender Equality Training Platform
#GenderPerspective #StructuralTransformation #SocialResponsibilityOfUnpaidCareWork
PARKCHA Ok-kyungDirector, Korea Center for Sustainable Development
#L-SDGs #SDG5 #SocialServices
TAE RI Myung HeeCitizen Policy Research Institute, Jeonju Council for Sustainable Development
CHOI InwookSecretary General, Local Sustainability Alliance of Korea
KIM HyogyeongRepresentative, Gwangju Womenlink
PARK JuheeResearcher, Gwangju Foundation for Women and Family
Oct. 6 (Fri)
13:20 - 15:30
Room 302-303
KOR, ENG
Discussions on social inclusion of immigrants have been actively going on at local level. In particular, the issues of vulnerable health and inequal access to healthcare of immigrants have emerged at local level during COVID-19 pandemic. In reality, immigrants deemed necessary are welcomed, while those not are subject to exclusion, which makes the current situation worse. As we are prepared for the post Covid era, now is time for us to build a new blueprint based on transitional imagination and practices beyond exclusion and selective inclusion of immigration policies. The health of immigrants is not an individual matter but a shared issue of local community, which requires social practices considering it a public agenda.
SHIN JiwonProfessor, Chonnam National University
KIM SagangResearch Fellow, Migration & Human Rights Institute
#Migrants #HealthInequality #Racism
YOO WeonseobDirector, National Medical Center
#Migrants #Health #PublicMeidcalServices
Stamatia StavrinakiVice Chairperson, UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
The right to health of migrants in international human rights law#Migrants #Health #Intersectionality
JEONG Jong-minResearcher, Center for Global Diaspora studies, Chonnam National University
BYEON JinokFellow Researcher, National Health Insurance Services
Oct. 6 (Fri)
16:00 - 18:00
Online Meeting
ENG
It is today widely recognized that corruption is a major impediment for the enjoyment of human rights and realisation of the sustainable development goals. Corruption, in different shapes and forms, exists all over the over world. It thrives in societies where there is a concentration of powers in the executive, inadequate or non-existent checks and balances, poor transparency, restricted access to information, weak institutions and dysfunctional systems of oversight and enforcements, a controlled media and lack of public trust in state institutions, governance and politics. Hence, it can be argued the respect for human rights and the rule of law correlates with the level of corruption in society, and that increasing enjoyment of human rights can contribute to the reduction of corruption, and poverty, in society. Fighting corruption must happen within the boundaries of human rights and the rule of law. Thus, increased knowledge on international human rights standards, principles and values, such as, empowerment, non-discrimination and diversity, equality and equity, participation and inclusion, integrity, transparency and accountability, are important preventive measures in the fight against corruption.
Morten Koch AndersenSenior Researcher, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
Trina Alejandra Firmalo-Fabic Mayor, Odiongan, Philippines
Oleksandr SenkevychMayor, Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Al KagsFounder, Open Institute
Payal ThaoreyHead of the Department, Post Graduate Teaching Department of Law, RTM Nagpur University
#Corruption #Poverty #Stakeholders
Oct. 6 (Fri)
16:30 - 19:00
Room 212-213
KOR
The Korean government has implemented youth-related policies in earnest based on the findings of researches on the current status of employment, housing, and education of youths since the legislation of the act. However, it turned out that the policies have barely impacted on the statistics related to youths. The issues of youths are relevant to lack of jobs, the wealth succession and asset inequality, which are complicated issues of the social and institutional system. Germany, France, and Finland have recognized youths as a subject to social policy early on and pushed for reform in extensive education and employment service through the EU. We would like to expand the perspective to cover the democratic view while dealing with the current status of the youth suffering from the multi-dimensional inequality such as deteriorating employment rate, housing instability, education inequality, and the vicious cycle of debt.
LIM MyunggyuRepresentative, Gwangju Youth Policy Network
BYUN GeumsunAssociate Research Fellow, Seoul Institute
#Poverty #Youth #TransitionPeriod
JANG HyeyeongMember, National Assembly, Korea
#Inequality #Poverty #Youth
PARK SuminRepresentative, Gwangju Youth Money Habbit Traning Center
#Youth #Debt #Poverty
KIM SeolChairperson, Youth Community Union
KI HyunjooCo-representative, My welfarestate
#Inequality #Youth #District
Oct. 6 (Fri)
16:30 - 19:00
Room 302-303
KOR, ENG
As the awareness of "the productivity and social values evaluation of housework" was raised, wage struggles and campaign movements of housework spread throughout Western society. In Korea, social evaluation and policyization work have also been carried out to enhance the meaning of housework and its "value." However, it is time to pay attention to the intangible(emotional) value of housework, which could not be converted into economic values.
PARK MijeongMember of the Gwangju Metropolitan Council
Silvia FedericiProfessor Emerita, Hofstra University
Pham Thu HienGender Specialist
Unpaid Care Work: Case of Viet Nam#Inequality #Women'sDevelopment #PolicyChange
KIM Gyoung RaePresident, Gwangju Foundation for Women & Family
Realization of Social Value of Household Labors and Household AllowancesGarance SarlatGender Associate Project Officer, UNESCO
LEE Hyun AhProfessor, Korea National Open University
Is Gender Inequality in Housework Being Resolved in Korea?JANG SerenaRepresentative, Gwang-ju Women Association
Urging for the payment of housework allowance to bring about the recognition of social values of care/housework and the promotion of gender equalityOct. 6 (Fri)
16:30 - 19:00
Room 209-210
KOR, ENG, FRA, ESP
The update process of the UCLG Charter-Agenda will reflect the achievements and progresses made by Local Governments in the past 10 years for the promotion of human rights; and will expand the global-local vision on human rights of the Charter-Agenda, building on the results of the Global Campaign.
KIM Gwang-jinDeputy Mayor for Culture and Economic Affairs, Gwangju Metropolitan City
Amanda Flety MartinezCoordinator, UCLG-CSIPDHR
Rubi Cabrera AguileraLawyer in charge of Ombudsman office, San Antonio
Audrey GarinoDeputy Mayor, Marseille
#HumanRights
Caroline Awuor AgwandaGovernor's Adviser on Disability, Women, and Youth, County Government of Kisumu
The inclusion of people with disabilities and accessibility of technology
#AccessibilityIsHumanRights
Verónica GonzálezChief Resilience Officer, Resilience Office at Juarez Municipality
The integral economic development through Juarez Charter for the Right to the City
#RightToTheCity #JuarezCity #EconomicDevelopment
Anselmo LeeProfessor, Kyung Hee University Global Academy for Future Civilizations
#HumanRights #Sustainability #PublicProcurement
Carla Canal RosichInternational Cooperation Officer, Barcelona City Council
#HumanRights #Sustainability #PublicProcurement
Ana Isabel Rodriguez Basanta Director of Citizenship Rights, Barcelona City
Morten KjaerumDirector, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
MugiyantoAdvisor on Human Rights, Executive Office of the President, Republic of Indonesia
SHIN GyongguExecutive Director, Gwangju International Center
Oct. 6 (Fri)
20:00 - 22:00
Room 302-303
KOR, ENG (CC), ISL
A human rights economy is defined by both the content of economic policies, and the process by which economic policies are made and implemented. Pursuing a human rights economy requires transparency and accountability and creating space for social dialogue, scrutiny and participation, especially for affected individuals, groups, and communities, for example in the budget process. Subnational levels of government have an obligation to ensure that people have access to budget information, which is necessary for example to conduct human rights-based budget analyses. Furthermore, relevant indicators and measures are a key component of assessing that budget allocations and expenditure are human rights compliant and thus contribute to reducing poverty and inequalities.
Janica PuistoHuman Rights Officer, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section, UN Human Rights
Todd HowlandChief, Development and Economic and Social Issues Branch, UN Human Rights
Olivier De SchutterUN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
Morten KjaerumDirector, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
Verónica GonzálezChief Resilience Officer, Resilience Office at Juarez Municipality
#RightToTheCity
Carla Canal RosichInternational Cooperation Officer, Barcelona City Council
#HumanRights #Sustainability #PublicProcurement
Jose CuestaLead Economist, Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice, The World Bank
Eradication of Poverty through Human Rights Economy Full PaperZipporah WambuaDirector, Department of Devolution and Public Service, Government of Makueni County, Kenya
Oct. 7 (Sat)
12:30 - 15:00
Room 301-303
KOR, ENG
Launched by UNESCO in November 2019 as a global “training for trainers” initiative, the Master Class Series on Racism and Discrimination aims to shed light on the growing significance of racial prejudice and the spread of racial discrimination and intolerance, and raise the visibility of its consequences. The ultimate goal is to empower young participants to become agents of change and trainers in their own schools and communities. The Second Edition of the UNESCO Master Class Gwangju Series has gathered 27 youth participants from Gwangju and South Jeolla Province. Under the topic of “Youth Actions in Response to Inequalities”, this year’s program focuses on exploring issues related to inequalities by aiding the participants in pinpointing topics and situations that result in unequal treatment of certain groups or individuals in their immediate surroundings, such as schools and communities they belong to.
CHOI DoseongStanding Chairman, Gwangju Council for Sustainable Development
SHIN GyongguExecutive Director, Gwangju International Center
Jana MilosavljevicCoordinator, Gwangju International Center
Stamatia StavrinakiVice Chairperson, UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Si-na-beu-ro
KIM Hyerin, LEE Yoomi, HEO Yookyung (Students, Gwangju Girls' High School of Business)
Hakuna Matata
YUN Hyeongrae, KIM Nanhee, OH Soojin, LEE Hyoeun, KIM Minkyung (Students, Jeonnam Foreign Language High School)
GANADARA(feat.SJ)
LIM Hajun, KIM Jinwoo, LIM Chaeyeon, KIM Jimin, KIM Taerin (Students, Sanjeong Middle School)
unequal, an equal
JEONG Jihoon, KIM Seoyeon (Students, Jeonnam Foreign Language High School), PARK Chaewoo (Student, Unnam High School), HAN Bin (Student, Salesio Girls' High School)
Dam-byeo-rak
LEE Juho, JEONG Hyeonseo, YUN Singah, LEE Minyoung, CHAE Minseo (Students, Sophia School)
Hak-gyo Dae-cheong-so
SEO Chaewon (Student, Gwangju Hwajeong Middle School), BAE Jaehwang (Student, Jeonnam National University High School), GO Yeseul (Student, Gwangju Girls' High School of Business)
Oct. 7 (Sat)
13:00 - 15:30
Room 212-213
KOR
The conflict over the construction of a new mosque in Daehyeon-dong, Daegu, which has been in process since 2020, has shown the most extreme hatred and discrimination against foreign and Islamic cultures in Korean society. This also has further spread hatred and discrimination in various areas in our society. Against this backdrop, local activists across the country would share their thoughts on how to respond to such discrimination and hatred, and how to carry out solidarity activities, and discuss possible resistance activities. Furthermore, they would more actively seek a method of solidarity against hatred.
SHIN KanghyobDirector, Jeju Peace Human Rights Institute WHAT
Farrah SheikhAssistant Professor, Keimyung University
Integrating South Korea’s Muslims into Society Successfully – Some Thoughts.#Muslim #Multiculturalism #HumanRights
SIM AjungActivist, International Waters 31
#MigrantDetention #Institutionalization #ForeignerProtectionPlace
SONG BoraFreelancer
#Hijab #StandardsOfBeauty #Women'sHumanRights
KIM JirimAttorney at Law, GongGam Human Rights Law Foundation
LA YeonuActivist, Naomi Center
#Refugee #Migrants #Stranger
PARK YoungcheolRepresentative, Ulsan Solidarity for Human Rights
SHO ChanghoStanding Activist, Protesting against Poverty & Discrimination Solidarity for Human Rights
LEE JinsukStanding Activist, Chungcheongnam-do Human Rights Education Activist Group ‘BUTTL’
CHAE MinStanding Activist, Solidarity for Peace & Human Rights
PARK EunyoungStanding Activist, Gwang-Ju Human Rights Center Hwal Jjak
Oct. 7 (Sat)
13:00 - 14:30
Online Meeting
KOR
According to a survey by the Ministry of Unification, as of June 2022, the number of North Korean defectors in South Korea is about 30,000. Due to the systemic and social, economic, and cultural differences between the two Koreas, North Korean defectors are experiencing many difficulties in settling down and adapting to South Korean society. Most cities neglect North Korean defectors without much consideration. In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 70th anniversary of the declaration of the end of the Korean War, we would like to reveal many problems that North Korean defectors are experiencing in South Korean cities and introduce cities that are responding to them.
KIM SeunghyeonRepresentative, University Students' Association for Unification(USAU)
CHOI EunjeongYouth Chairperson, Peaceful Unification Advisory Council
#Gaze #Boundary #OvercomeTheBarrier
KIM JuhyeonMember, University Students' Association for Unification(USAU)
#SettlementSupport #UniversityStudents #StabilityOfNorthKoreanRefugees
KIM MinsolManager, University Students' Association for Unification(USAU)
#Inequality #NorthKoreanRefugees #Youth
KANG Young-sooCoordinator, University Students' Association for Unification(USAU)
HAN GasunStanding Member, Peaceful Unification Advisory Council
Oct. 7 (Sat)
16:00 - 17:00
Room 301-303
KOR (KSL, CC), ENG
PARK YoungsuHead, Democracy, Human Rights, and Peace Bureau, Gwangju Metropolitan City
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