Gwangju Metropolitan City

Gwangju Metropolitan City, the cradle of the ‘Gwangju Spirit’, is walking on a new path that no other city has ever taken before. Gwangju dreams of becoming a mentally just and materially prosperous city. With the uniqueness of the ‘Gwangju Spirit’, we dream of a special city and a new urban ecosystem solely existing in Gwangju. Nowadays, the changes and innovations in Gwangju are transforming Gwangju greatly into a global city. Moving beyond the Asian cultural hub, we are advancing as a global human rights city, where a city offering a decent human life coexists as a global city holding hands with the rest of the global village. That is the vision of 'Just and Prosperous Gwangju, Special Future City Gwangju'.

UN Human Rights

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a UN organization in human rights, has dedicated itself to protecting and enhancing all human rights and freedom stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Human Rights Laws. With its headquarters in Geneva and office in New York working with 90 nations, the OHCHR has put efforts to help international, regional, national and local partners implement their human rights obligation.

UNESCO

UNESCO contributes to peace and security by promoting international cooperation in education, sciences, culture, communication and information. UNESCO develops educational tools to help people live as global citizens free of hate and intolerance, and works so that every child and citizen has access to quality education. By promoting cultural heritage and the equal dignity of all cultures, UNESCO strengthens bonds among nations. It also fosters scientific programmes and policies as platforms for development and cooperation.

National Human Rights Commission of Korea

National Human Rights Commission of Korea is a national agency to protect and enhance intrinsic human rights of individuals ultimately to realize dignity and values of humanity and contribute to establishing a basic order of democracy.

Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education

Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education is an educational administrative agency responsible for education in Gwangju. The office has also strived to implement educational philosophies of humanism, publicity, democracy, spontaneity, and community under the banner of 'nurturing just democratic citizens in harmony with others'. It has also sought for education values centering around happy lives based on respecting students' creativity and autonomy rather than education focusing on one-size-fits-all knowledge learning.

Gwangju International Center

The Gwangju International Center (GIC) is a non-profit organization for Korean and international resisdents, aiming to facilitate mutual understanding and communication between each other’s cultures, while providing personal and cultural exchange programs and services customized to meet international resisdents’ needs.

Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI)

The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI), founded in 1984, is an academic institution that works to promote and advance human rights combining research, education, and direct engagement. It is named after Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews and other people at risk in Hungary at the end of World War II. RWI is also part of the organising committee for WHRCF since 2016. One of RWI’s thematic focus areas is the nexus between human rights and environment, wherein one issue addressed is human rights in disaster displacement, risk reduction and management.

UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights

The UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights (UCLG-CSIPDHR) is an international platform bringing together local and regional government representatives from across the world to debate, share and advance collective initiatives on social inclusion, participatory democracy and human rights.
As a thematic committee of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), the CSIPDHR aspires to articulate the common voice of the world organization of local and regional governments on pressing human rights issues at the local level.