Establishment and Implementation of the 'Busan Metropolitan City Human Rights Policy Implementation Plan'

‘A Human Rights City Busan Where Everyone Can Live Safely and Happily Together’

Based on ‘Equality, Participation, Inclusion’ … 5 Major Goals and 97 Tasks

Busan City (Mayor Park Hyung-jun) has established and is implementing the "2023 Busan Metropolitan City Human Rights Policy Implementation Plan" to create a "human rights city Busan where anyone can live safely and happily together."

2023 Busan Metropolitan City Human Rights Policy Vision and Goals.

This implementation plan consists of five major policy goals: ▲ a city with citizens, ▲ a safe city, ▲ a healthy environmental city, ▲ a culture city that respects differences, and ▲ a city happy together, along with 10 core tasks and 23 important tasks, containing a total of 97 human rights policy tasks.

In 2020, the city established the "Busan Metropolitan City Human Rights Policy Basic Plan (2020?2024)" through consultations with the Human Rights Committee, experts, and collaboration between project departments and human rights departments. Every year, the city formulates and implements an implementation plan reflecting changes in the human rights policy environment. On the 10th, the plan for this year was finalized after review and consultation at the temporary meeting of the Busan City Human Rights Committee.

The Busan City Human Rights Committee, the city's human rights policy review and advisory body, proposed expanding the Busan City Human Rights Protection Officer, including a process for gathering opinions from vulnerable groups in the disaster preparedness manual for socially disadvantaged people, and emphasized the need to strengthen support for public medical translation and interpretation services for migrants.

Based on the committee's opinions, the city plans to actively protect citizens from human rights violations through the operation of "visiting human rights protection officers" to ensure that human rights permeate all aspects of city administration when promoting human rights policy projects. The city will also actively work to guarantee citizens' rights to safety and health and to eliminate human rights blind spots for vulnerable groups.

Through the Human Rights Policy Council, a consultation process between project departments and the Human Rights Committee, the city will monitor the progress of core tasks such as operating the Human Rights Center, expanding public medical institutions, and establishing a cooperative system to respond to digital sex crimes, focusing on tasks that failed to meet last year's goals. At the end of the year, an implementation evaluation will be conducted, and the results will be reflected in the next plan, maintaining a feedback system to actively strive for the realization of a human rights city Busan.

Mayor Park Hyung-jun stated, "Based on the human rights policy implementation plan, we will reflect on the values of equality, participation, and inclusion and work to spread a culture of respect for human rights." He added, "I hope that this plan will lead to practical human rights administration, with city administration supporting citizens' human rights as the top priority."