Sessions marked with ** are only available to invited participants and officials.
Gwangju UNESCO Tour will introduce attractive travelers’ destinations in Gwangju Metropolitan City acknowledged by the UNESCO with their historic and cultural values.
Memory of the World (5‧18 Archives of Gwangju, listed in 2011) | World Geopark (Mt. Mudeung-san, labeled in 2018) | Creative City Network (Media Art, designated in 2014, 2019)
Concept Note The pandemic is threatening to everyone, but the size of the threat is never equal. A social assistance system based on a specific identity discriminates and excludes social minorities including LGBT, and even threatens their livelihoods. Against this back drop, the thematic session on LGBTQI of 2022 World Human Rights Cities Forum will be an opportunity to make a diagnosis of the reality - whether the rights of Gwangju citizens, as specified in the Gwangju Human Rights Charter, are also fully enjoyed by sexual minorities in Gwangju.
[Korea] Executive Director, Beyond the Rainbow Foundation
[Korea] Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago
#Climate Justice #LGBTQI #Human Rights City
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[Korea] Standing Activist, Solidarity for LGBT Human Rights of Korea
#Climate Justice #LGBTQI #Human Rights Movement
Download [Korea] Counseling team Leader and Attorney, LGBTQ Youth Crisis Support Center DDing Dong
[Korea] Executive Member, Dawoom - together4change
[Korea] Team Member, Gwangju Rainbow Project Team
[Korea] Representative & Activist, Q&I
Gwangju Ingwonjigi Hwaljjak, Rainbow Project, Gwangju Network to Fight Against Hate Culture
Concept Note The climate crisis is a threat to the present and future of all humanity. Regardless of who is responsible, it is a massive burden that must be shouldered by us all. Beyond this, future generations will inevitably bear more of the harsh consequences of climate change than the generations that caused the problem in the first place. We wish to hear the stories of youth in Korea and abroad, who are taking direct action to respond to the climate crisis and protect their rights.
[Korea] School inspector, Democratic Community Education Department, Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education
[Korea] Division Head, Democratic Community Education Department, Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education
[Korea] Director, The Center for Public Interest&Human Rights, Chonnam National University
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, United Nation
[Netherlands] Founder, YOUTHTOPIA & Bye Bye Plastic Bags
[Korea] General Operations Coordinator, Youth 4 Climate Action
Bringing Changes to Protect our Lives with the Voices of Those Involved
#Climate Justice #Inequality #Stakeholder
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[Korea]Representative, Gwangju Youth Climate Action 1.5°c
Youth Taking the Lead in Climate Actions
#Youth #Climate Action #Climate Justice
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[Korea] Student President of Student Council, Salesian High School
[Korea] Student, Dreaming_polarbear
Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education, Center for Public Interest & Human Rights Law Chonnam National University
Concept Note Glasgow Adaptation Impe rative sets out action and progress re quire d on the pathway to COP27 for an inclusive climate-re silie nt future. It recognise d that a more inclusive, e quitable and e ffective locally-led adaptation is the most significant opportunity to address the fundamental drive rs of climate vulne rability. He re human rights can support local gove rnme nts and stakeholde rs to put people at the center and ensure their active and meaningful pa rticipation in policy-making. Building on RWI’s research on NAP and handbook for citie s, this e ve nt will closely e xamine how local gove rnme nts can integrate human rights into their local climate change adaptation work, including local adaptation plans.
[Indonesia] Deputy Director, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
[Indonesia] Programme Officer, Jakarta Office, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
[Sweden] Programme Officer, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
#Climate Change #Adaption #Gender Equality
[Indonesia] Professor, Diponegoro University
Governance of Local Climate Change Adaptation – A Perspective to promote Social Justice
#Local Climate Change Adaptation
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[Philippines] Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute
#NAPs #Human Rights #Adaptation
[Philippines] Mayor, Iloilo City
[Indonesia] Mayor, Pariaman
Human Right Officer, Human Rights, Climate change and environment Regional Focal Point, UN Human Rights
Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law(RWI)
Concept Note The Indonesian government recognizes the importance of districts/cities in mitigating the effects of climate change and increasing resilience to climate change through existing policies. Therefore, the Human Rights City concept, which holds that human rights implementation through cities can be more effective and targeted, can be a strategy for overcoming the climate crisis and increasing resilience to climate change. During the WHRCF 2022, INFID would like to initiate a discussion about how cities can help overcome the climate crisis and increase their resilience to climate change. We invite all stakeholders to share and discuss climate change. We also invite all parties as participants to take part and participate in the discussion sessions, including young people, journalists, regional officials, vulnerable groups, and related groups.
[Indonesia] Executive Director, International NGO Forum On Indonesian Development (INFID)
[Indonesia] Forest Campaigner, Greenpeace Southeast Asia
[Indonesia] Director General, Climate Change Control, Ministry of Environment and Forestry
[Indonesia] Mayor, Surabaya City
[Indonesia] Chairperson, Universitas Indonesia Green Metric
[Indonesia] Data and Research Analyst, Mongabay Indonesia
[Indonesia] Program Manager, Kota Kita Foundation
International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID)
Concept Note This session aims to present a discourse on the climate crisis and the human rights of the disabled to the local community so that the disabled, who are excluded from the existing climate crisis response, can independently adapt to upcoming changes and enjoy the rights of persons with disabilities. It is also intended to start activities to raise awareness of the climate crisis together with human rights groups for the disabled and environmental groups in the local community in order to transform the Gwangju area into an environmental city and an ecological city.
[Korea] Head of Department, Gwangju Human Right Center for People with Disabilities
[Korea] Associate Professor, Gwangju University
Human Rights Officer, UN Human Rights
OHCHR Analytical Study on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of Climate Change
#Human Rights #Climate Change
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Vice-Chairperson, UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Implications of International Human Rights Law and International Disaster Law for Persons with Disabilities in the Era of Climate Change
#Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities #United Nations
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[Korea] Co-Representative, Women with Disabilities Empathy
Climate Crisis and “Facility Society”
#Climate Justice #Deinstitution #Women with Disabilities
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[Korea] Co-Founder, Transition Town Eunpyeong
[Korea] Standing Activist, Gwangju Human Rights Center HwalJjak
Gwangju Human Right Center for People with Disabilities, Gwangju Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination
Concept Note The climate crisis causes not only crises of natural ecosystems such as extreme weather and ecosystem destruction, but also crises of social ecosystems such as economic and health deterioration and deepening social inequality. Indeed, the climate crisis exacerbates the fragile environment and inequality that women and social minorities must face. By sharing the impact of the climate crisis on women through domestic and international cases and examining the gendersensitive climate crisis response policies suggested by international norms, we would like to seek ways to respond to the climate crisis to resolve structural inequality.
[Korea] Representative, Gwangju Jeonnam Women's Association
[Korea] Policy Committee Member, Gwangju Jeonnam Women's Association
[Korea] Representative, Pacific Tourism Organization
The Green Heart of the Pacific
#Climate Change #Women's Rights #Island
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[Indonesia] Director, SDGs Center UNILA
Indonesian Cases of Responding to the Climate Crisis throughout Mangrove Forest Health Monitoring in Sumatera and Women's Participation in Local Economies
#Climate Crisis #Gender Perspective #Local Economies
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[Korea] Professor, Jirisan Feminism School, Taeng-Ja
[Korea] Councilor, Gwangju Gwangsan District Council
[France] International Project Manager, International Observatory on Violence against Women
Gwangju Jeonnam Women's Association United
Gyeonggi-do Human Rights Center, Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education, Gwangju International Center
Human Rights Policy Tour will provide participants with a chance to learn about Gwangju City’s policies related to climate environment while walking through Gwangju Pureungil Park, ICLEI KO CS No. 14.
Concept Note The climate crisis, like that of the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing armed conflicts, is not only expected to disproportionately affect disadvantaged groups within given contexts, but also to influence forced migration, displacing thousands of communities from their homes worldwide. Ethnic minority groups are said to breathe 46% more nitrogen dioxide in the US, and 85% of the urban poor worldwide are exposed to flood risk compared to 60% of urban population at large. These impacts are increasingly becoming experienced and embodied by our communities and even more so by the most vulnerable of us all, including ethnic minorities, women and youth. Individuals facing racism are also disproportionately impacted by climate-related injustices making racism and climate change inextricably linked and to be jointly addressed.
Chief of the Inclusion, Rights and Dialogue Section, UNESCO
[Phillipines] Mayor, City of Ormoc
[Netherlands] Founder, YOUTHTOPIA & Bye Bye Plastic Bags
Programme Specialist, Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO
[Korea] Councilor, Gwangju Metropolitan Council
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Chairperson in Futures Studies, UNESCO
[Philippines] Chairperson, Center for Engaged Foresight
[USA] Professor, East Asian and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
Cities and Universities against Racism
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[Jordan] Director of Amman Urban Observatory
[Uganda] Climate Activist, Rise Up Movement
Coordinator, European Coalition of Cities against Racism (ECCAR)
Gwangju International Center, UNESCO
Concept Note Increasing numbers of local and regional authorities across the world are struggling to cope with climate and weather-related disasters and displacement, that in several places, particularly in the global south, have grown increasingly frequent and forceful. One clear factor deciding the impacts of such disasters in terms of mortality, but also of destruction of for instance hospitals, water cisterns, housing, and key livelihoods, is risk awareness in planning the built environment. Risk reduction and management, with inclusive, participatory planning and response, is necessary to protect human rights, including rights to life, health, and shelter, in the face both of existing threats, and of the scenarios that are forecasted in the latest IPCC reports.
[Denmark] Director, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
[Sweden] Expert, Human Rights in Local Governance, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
[Sweden] Head, the Human Rights and the Environment Thematic Area, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
[Portugal] Europe Programme Manager, Built Environment, Institute for Human Rights and Business Nordic
[Philippines] Mayor, Naga City
[Bangladesh] Mayor, Dhaka North City Corporation
[Austria] Head, Human Rights Office, Vienna City
[India] Chief Executive Officer, Savusavu Town Council
Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law(RWI), Institute for Human Rights and Business(IHRB)
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