Dobong-gu to Create a City Respecting Human Rights... Announces Four-Year Basic Human Rights Policy Plan

Announcement of the 2nd Term (2021-2024) Dobong-gu Human Rights Policy Basic Plan... Establishment of 4 Policy Goals Including Protection and Promotion of Socially Vulnerable Groups' Human Rights, 19 Areas, 22 Promotion Tasks, and 127 Implementation Tasks... Development of Human Rights Indicators and Vision System to Ensure Policy Execution

Dobong-gu Mayor Lee Dong-jin is expressing his aspirations for Dobong-gu's human rights policy at the 2020 Dobong-gu Human Rights Week Commemoration Ceremony, held via Dobongbong TV online live broadcast on the 17th of last month.

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Dobong-gu (Mayor Dongjin Lee) has established the 2nd Human Rights Policy Basic Plan (2021?2024), which includes mid- to long-term goals and promotion strategies to guarantee and promote human rights in the daily lives of its residents.

The 2nd Human Rights Policy Basic Plan contains four policy goals: ▲ protection and promotion of the human rights of socially vulnerable groups ▲ creation of a human rights-friendly urban environment ▲ fostering a culture of human rights respect and strengthening civic awareness ▲ building human rights administrative infrastructure and activating governance, along with 19 sectors, 22 promotion tasks, and 127 implementation tasks.

This basic plan was drafted based on a research project conducted last May by a specialized institution for establishing the plan, analyzing domestic and international human rights city cases, analyzing Dobong-gu’s regional characteristics and human rights conditions such as population, environment, and culture, analyzing the supply-demand gap of human rights in Dobong-gu using location quotients, evaluating the implementation of the 1st basic plan, and analyzing survey results on residents’ human rights status and group interviews with socially vulnerable groups.

In particular, to reflect voices from the field, workshops with human rights experts and civil society activists were held, residents’ opinions were collected online, and meaningful processes were undertaken through meetings with related department officials and the Human Rights Committee to select a human rights policy vision and implementation tasks suited to Dobong-gu’s characteristics before finalizing the plan.

At the Dobong-gu Human Rights Week ceremony on December 17 last year, the basic directions were presented as ▲ a people-centered human rights city realizing human dignity and value without discrimination ▲ a sustainable human rights city created and participated in by all residents ▲ a fair human rights city where socially vulnerable groups are equally respected, with the vision of “Dobong, a human rights city where everyone participates and is respected without discrimination.”

The Director of the Dobong-gu Human Rights Center expressed the ambition to systematically and comprehensively promote the plan from 2021 to 2024 by preparing annual implementation plans and collaborating with the human rights department, Dobong-gu Human Rights Center, and departments responsible for implementation tasks.

In 2021, the district plans to form a human rights policy evaluation group consisting of civil society activists, human rights education graduates, and representatives of socially vulnerable groups. Through the participation of this evaluation group, Dobong-gu will develop human rights indicators, analyze and evaluate the implementation of human rights policies, and establish an evaluation system to derive improvement measures, thereby strengthening the execution power of the district’s human rights policies.

Mayor Dongjin Lee of Dobong-gu stated, “Dobong-gu has been leading human rights policies at the local government level as the chair city of the Korean Human Rights Cities Council, and we will continue to do our best to create Dobong, a human rights city where everyone participates and is respected without discrimination.”

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