Administration, Women's Rights, Youth, Welfare, and More
6 Major Policy Objectives and 142 Action Items
Gwangju Dong-gu (District Chief Lim Taek) announced on the 31st that at the recent Human Rights Protection and Promotion Committee for the first half of this year, the "3rd (2025~2029) Basic Plan for Human Rights Protection and Promotion" was reviewed, confirmed, and will be actively implemented.
This basic plan is a comprehensive mid- to long-term plan set for five years (2025~2029), presenting the policy direction for continuous development as a human rights city.
The plan was established under the vision of "Dong-gu, a human rights community realizing the principles of human dignity, freedom, equality, and solidarity." Through a public hearing held last month and five separate expert advisory meetings by area, various opinions from residents and experts were collected. The plan also reflects feedback from 25 departments, resulting in a realistic and highly effective plan.
Key elements reflected from the area-specific advisory meetings of the Human Rights Protection and Promotion Committee include: ▲Human Rights Administration (establishing a monitoring system for the basic plan, protecting the human rights of care workers in social welfare facilities and long-term care institutions) ▲Women's Rights (support and protection for victims of violence, developing gender-sensitive statistics tailored to the district) ▲Youth (education to prevent youth online gambling) ▲Welfare (introducing joint public-private human rights surveys of elderly welfare and long-term care facilities through honorary staff for elderly welfare) ▲Environment (dissemination of text messages in disaster situations) ▲Employment (developing policies to support precarious workers) ▲Youth (participation in planning youth artist festivals) ▲Foreign Residents (specialized multicultural family support projects), among others.
The basic plan system was established by moving beyond the existing framework to reflect comprehensive human rights policies, based on the achievements and evaluation of the 2nd Basic Plan (2020~2024), and utilizing the rights classification from the Gwangju Human Rights Charter of May 2012. The Gwangju Human Rights Charter includes a commentary, enabling more concrete human rights protection.
The detailed plan includes 6 major policy objectives, 16 areas, 25 core rights, 5 key tasks, and a total of 142 action items. The annual implementation plan will be finalized in April, and a monitoring system will be introduced to ensure meticulous human rights administration.
Lim Taek, Chief of Dong-gu District, said, "This basic plan will serve as an important milestone for the protection and promotion of residents' human rights," and added, "We will continue to pursue human rights policies to realize Dong-gu as a human rights community of freedom, equality, and solidarity."
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