Gwangju City Launches Full-Scale Human Rights Organization Collaboration Project

Gwangju City Hall

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 25th that it will promote a human rights organization cooperation project together with local human rights organizations to enhance citizens' human rights and support the spread of human rights culture.

Last month, the city received project proposals from a total of 17 organizations through a public contest and selected 13 organizations by evaluating the originality of the projects, ripple effects, and appropriateness of the project budgets.

This year, the projects will be promoted in two categories: planned contest and general contest.

In the planned category, five organizations will carry out projects to promote vulnerable human rights groups such as persons with disabilities, women, out-of-school youth, and immigrants. In the general category, eight organizations will promote human rights education, the spread of a culture of respect for human rights, and human rights protection projects.

Among them, the Human Rights Education Research Institute Ttubugi plans to develop and distribute human rights education programs suitable for the region to raise citizens' awareness of human rights and contribute to improving human rights sensitivity through visiting human rights classes.

The Gwangju Women's Human Rights Support Center plans to approach prostitution as a women's human rights issue and promote changes in citizens' perceptions of prostitution through exhibitions of human rights works by prostitution participants, photo exhibitions of prostitution hotspots, and anti-prostitution publicity activities.

The Bitgoeul Center for Independent Living of Persons with Disabilities plans to cultivate human rights activists with disabilities and foster a sense of community living together with persons with disabilities through campaigns to improve the independent living environment in the local community.

The Gwangju Youth Labor Human Rights Network plans to operate education programs on how to write labor contracts and living wages to provide labor counseling and rights protection for out-of-school youth working in poor labor conditions, and will also carry out campaigns targeting vulnerable groups.

In addition, Gwangju Citizen Broadcasting will produce radio programs related to human rights such as immigrants' right to know, access to information, and health rights by immigrants and foreign university students, and share them through Gwangju FM broadcasts and social network services (SNS) to eliminate discriminatory cultures and form a human rights network among immigrants and foreign university students.

The city will support a total of 150 million won, ranging from 4 million won to 19 million won for each selected project, and plans to strengthen monitoring of the progress at each stage to ensure that the selected projects are carried out effectively.

Kim Yong-man, Director of the Democracy and Human Rights Division of the city, said, "We will support the projects of organizations engaged in human rights promotion activities to spread a consensus on the importance of human rights and do our best to ensure that human rights awareness is disseminated in citizens' daily lives."

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