'Metaverse and Climate Crisis' Topics Meet Human Rights... '2021 Seoul Human Rights Conference'

Held online and offline on the 6th-7th... Mayor Oh Se-hoon’s Welcome Address
Diagnosing Human Rights Issues and Exploring Development Plans in Metaverse, ESG, Changes in Family Structure, and Climate Crisis Fields

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young]The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on the 6th that it will hold the '2021 Seoul Human Rights Conference,' which discusses and seeks development plans by linking issues such as the metaverse and ESG management, emerging as new topics in the post-COVID-19 new normal era, with human rights, over two days on the 6th and 7th both online and offline.

This year marks the 6th conference, and the theme is 'Discussing the Future and Human Rights beyond COVID-19.' Twenty-five domestic and international speakers will participate.

While previous conferences focused on human rights issues of minorities in our society such as persons with disabilities and marriage migrant women, this year will address anticipated human rights issues in important fields of the new normal era, deeply exploring ways for coexistence of human rights values and progressive strategies that Seoul's future human rights should have.

The '2021 Seoul Human Rights Conference' is composed on the first day of ▲Opening Ceremony ▲Special Session (Human Rights in the Metaverse Era), and on the second day ▲General Session 1 (ESG and Human Rights) ▲General Session 2 ▲General Session 3 (Climate Crisis and Human Rights). Mayor Oh Se-hoon will attend the opening ceremony and deliver a welcoming address to both online and offline participants of the conference.

Meanwhile, to reflect on the meaning of human rights in daily life and spread a culture that respects human rights, Seoul will hold a human rights cultural event online on the 10th under the theme 'Embracing Human Rights in Daily Life.' It will be a cultural program for citizens to reconsider unconscious hate expressions used in everyday life and will be released through Seoul City's official YouTube channel.

Kwon Myung-hee, Seoul City's Human Rights Officer, said, “This year's conference will be an opportunity to discuss the newly emerging human rights crises in the new normal era triggered by COVID-19 and seek ways to overcome them with a new human rights paradigm,” adding, “Seoul will do its best to strengthen crisis management capabilities and create a human rights city where the values of fairness and coexistence breathe for the safe future and human rights life of its citizens.”