Sessions marked with ** are only available to invited participants and officials.
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 realizing democracy. Part 1 will provide participants with a chance to look around historical sites of 5‧18 Democratization Movement while listening to stories back then and to take a moment for commemorating victims as well.
The UNESCO Master Class Gwangju Series was launched to foster the next generation of anti-discrimination leaders as the lead city of the UNESCO Asia Pacific Coalition of Cities Against Discrimination (UNESCO APCAD). Particularly, the Gwangju Series was designed under the theme of "Youth's Action Against Online Discriminations", focusing on the rapidly increasing online hate speech, which has been proven to become more severe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Intern, UNESCO Office in Bangkok
Vice-Chairperson, UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
LEE Hamin [Korea] Student, Sangmu High school / KIM Kanghun [Korea] Student, Sangmu High school / PYO Chaeyun [Korea] Student, Sangmu High school / LIM jinsu [Korea] Student, Sangmu High school
KIM Jimin [Korea] Student, Suwan High School / IM Hyejin [Korea] Student, Unnam High School / KIM Donghyo [Korea] Student, Bia High School
KO Sarang [Korea] Student, Unnam High School / CHEON Jieun [Korea] Student, Unnam High School / LEE NaKyeong [Korea] Student, Bomun High school
CHOI Seoyoung [Korea] Student, Unnam High School / LEE Yurim [Korea] Student, Speer Girls High School / JU Youmin [Korea] Student, Donga High school / YUN Hyejung [Korea] Student, Daesung Girls' High School
JANG Seoyeon [Korea] Student, Cheomdan High School / SEO Yusol [Korea] Student, Seongdeok High School / HAN Dogyeong [Korea] Student, Seongdeok High School / LEE Yujeong [Korea] Student, Seongdeok High School
Gwangju International Center, UNESCO, Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education
‘Gwangju Inkkotjigi’ was launched in February 2017 in a bid to encourage citizens to monitor human rights status and to conduct relevant campaigns in their daily life. Since its opening, it has implemented various programs including constant monitoring human rights status and human rights campaigns, ultimately to contribute to promoting Gwangju as a human rights city with civil engagement. The meeting participated by citizens would enable the citizens themselves, as agents for human rights city realization, to respect others’ human rights in daily life and support for the human rights policies of Gwangju Metropolitan City. Therefore, the group ‘Gwangju Inkkotjigi’ promotes Gwangju as a human rights city that respects human dignity and value while upholding the meaning of ‘Inkkotjigi’ referring to the protector of human dignity and value as beautiful as flowers.
Gwangju Metropolitan City, Gwangju Inkkotjigi
[Korea] Mayor, Gwangju Metropolitan City
[Korea] Superintendent, Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education
[Korea] Chairperson, Gwangju Metropolitan Council
[Mozambique] Policies and Programmes Director, UNESCO
Director, Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Rights to Development Division, UN Human Rights
[Korea] Mayor, Gwangju Metropolitan City
[Chile] Mayor, Santiago City
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, United Nation
Deputy Director, Law Division, UN Environment Programme
[Denmark] Director, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
[Colombia] Environmental Activist, Guardians of Life
[Korea] Activist, Youth Climate Emergency Action
#Youth #Life Ground # Degrowth
States - at all level - have a human rights obligation to prevent the foreseeable adverse effects of climate change and ensure that those affected by it, particularly those in vulnerable situations, have access to effective remedies and means of adaptation to protect their lives, rights and dignity. The Preamble of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change makes it clear that all States "should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on human rights". So, in the face of the exponentially increasing impacts on human rights, what role can local and regional governments play in the protection and promotion of human rights by fighting against climate change, biodiversity loss and implementing the right to a clean, safe and healthy environment? How can cities ensure that mitigation and climate change responses do not negatively affect human rights? What solutions exist when cities are quicker to respond to this global emergency than national authorities are? How can global discussions benefit from the local rights-based responses to the triple planetary crisis?
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, United Nation
Chief of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section, UN Human Rights
Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
[France] Coordinator, UCLG-CSIPDHR
[Netherlands] Co-Mayor, Utrecht City
[France] Deputy Mayor, Strasbourg City
[Korea] Head of Democracy, Human Rights and Peace Bureau, Gwangju Metropolitan City
[Central African Republic] Mayor, Bangui City
[France] Deputy Mayor, Lyon City
[Ghana] District Chief Executive, Afadzato South District
[Brazil] Secretary of Human Rights and Citizenship, São Paulo City
Gwangju International Center, UN Human Rights, UCLG-CSIPDHR
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