Conference on anti-discrimination: increasing capabilities and cooperation between European and Korean CSOs

On November 19, we'd like to welcome you to our hybrid Conference on anti-discrimination: increasing capabilities and cooperation between European and Korean CSOs, with the themes Gender Equality, Disability Rights and Migrants' Rights at the Westin Josun Seoul, bringing you best practices from European and Korean CSOs. 

The event will facilitate the conversation between CSOs already engaged in Korea-EU CSO Network (KEN) activities and also new CSOs who are interested in mutual collaboration and exchange. The objective of the conference is to enhance partnerships between EU and RoK CSOs working in the field of human rights. This conference will also contribute to raise awareness about EU values and policies, as well as the EU role and actions in the RoK and at regional and global levels.

Agenda

• 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm : Registrations
• 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm : Welcome speech
• 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm : Session 1: Gender Equality (Panelists: Myoon Ryoon Hwang Geum, Nicholas Spetsidis, Heechung Chung and Juhee Roh) 
• 4:50 pm – 5:50 pm : Session 2: Disability Rights (Panelists : Hanbyul Choi, Helen Portal, Gayeon Lee and Reena Lee)
• 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm : Session 3: Migrants' Rights (Panelists : Youngah Kim, Josephine Liebl, Lee Takgon and Won Geun Choi)
• 7:00 pm – 7:40 pm : Session 4: Outcomes and way forward
• 7:40 pm – 8:00 pm : Closure

Panelists

Hwang Geum Myoung Ryoon

Executive Director of Gender Equality Training Platform Hyojea

Nicholas Spetsidis

Project Coordinator at the Union of Women Association of Heraklion, Greece

Hanbyul Choi

General Secretary of Korean Disability Forum

Helen Portal

Policy Officer at Inclusion Europe

Young-ah Kim

Director of Migration to Asia Peace (MAP)

Josephine Liebl

Head of Advocacy at the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)

Heechung Chung

President of Tomato Education Lab

Gayeon Lee

Reporter at Be Minor

Takgon Lee

Associate Legal Officer at UNHCR Korea

Juhee Roh

Chief Operating Officer at Seoul Acceleration Center for Gender Equity

Reena Lee

Chair of Working Committee on Children with Disabilities of APDF

Won Geun Choi

Kyunghee University Research Professor at Center for International Development Cooperation (CIDEC)