Operation of the 'Human Rights Monitoring Team' in Nowon-gu

From Policy Planning to Monitoring... Operation of Human Rights Monitoring Team with Direct Resident Participation... Appointment after 6 Training Sessions Post-Selection, 1-Year Activity... Residents Interested in Human Rights, Submit Application to District Office Audit Officer via Email by 31st

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Nowon-gu (Mayor Oh Seung-rok) will operate a human rights monitoring group in which residents directly participate and reflect their opinions throughout the entire process of policy establishment, implementation, and evaluation to ensure and promote the actual human rights of district residents.

From November last year to May this year, the district conducted a research project to investigate and analyze the human rights status of Nowon-gu residents and established a basic five-year plan for human rights protection and promotion in Nowon-gu from 2020 to 2024, reflecting four major strategies, 17 promotion tasks, 62 unit projects, and 158 detailed projects.

To enhance the execution power and effectiveness of this basic plan, the district will operate a ‘Human Rights Monitoring Group’ involving external experts and residents. By establishing a professional and objective evaluation system to regularly check the implementation performance of human rights policies and deriving human rights improvement tasks reflecting residents’ needs and perspectives through local human resources, the plan is to build a public-private cooperative human rights network.

The ‘Human Rights Monitoring Group’ will consist of a total of 30 members. It includes 10 private experts such as personnel related to institutions, facilities, and organizations related to human rights, academic experts, and human rights activists, and 20 residents interested in human rights policies. Two experts and four residents form one team, and each team will be responsible for one of the five subcommittees: children, adolescents, and youth; seniors; persons with disabilities; women; and vulnerable groups.

The main roles are ▲ monitoring the implementation of Nowon-gu’s human rights policies ▲ proposing human rights policies reflecting residents’ opinions ▲ participating in and promoting human rights education and human rights promotion projects.

The district is recruiting members to participate in the monitoring group until the 31st.

Eligibility to apply is open to anyone interested in human rights who either resides in Nowon-gu or works at a workplace located in Nowon-gu. For the application form and the email address for submission, please refer to the district office website. For detailed information, contact the district office’s Audit Department.

The activity period is one year from the date of appointment. To enhance the professionalism and operational effectiveness of the monitoring group, participation is on a one-year basis, and based on participants’ intentions, members may be dismissed or newly appointed. It is an unpaid honorary position, but activity expenses and other actual costs will be provided if necessary.

The district will select candidates considering applicants’ human rights-related activity experience, age, gender, and desired field of activity and will notify individuals separately.

Selected members must complete a human rights monitoring group training course held once a week for six sessions from September to October to receive an appointment certificate. The monitoring group will begin full-scale activities from November after the appointment ceremony in October.

Mayor Oh Seung-rok said, “We expect the human rights monitoring group, in which residents directly participate, to serve as guardians of human rights policies,” and added, “We will continue to promote various policies to create a human rights-friendly culture.”

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