Objectives
Purpose of Establishment
Mission
History
Main activities
The 2006 Korean WomenLink's major activities
Purpose of Establishment
Our aim is to promote gender equality and a participatory
democratic society. We are striving to build a society where
women's rights are respected, nature and human beings coexist
harmoniously, women are no longer discriminated against due
to their gender and can participate equally in all areas of
society.
Mission
Our movement develops women's awareness and supports self-organization
and solidarity in communities and workplaces. It is a cooperative
women's movement.
- A world without domestic violence and sexual violence
- A society with an open family culture that accepts various
family forms
- A society where women's self-determination is respected
- A society where women's labor rights and equal employment
are protected
- Open media and media for the public media
- A society where women's health right is secured
- Co-operative community movement (¡ãTop)
History
1987 Sept. 12th Korean WomenLink was established
to promote gender equality and a participatory democratic
society by Lee Hyo Jae.
1994 Mar. 18th Korean WomenLink was approved
as a nonprofit organization by the Minister of Health and
Welfare
2001 Jan. 29th The registration was transferred
to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.
Now Korean WomenLink has 11 local chapters
and more than fifteen thousand members who actively participate
in building a just and egalitarian society. (¡ãTop)
Main activities
* Women's labor
- Reform and develop women's labor policy and system
- Activities against gender discrimination at work
- Activities against gender discriminatory dismissals
- Activities against sexual harassment in the workplace
- Campaign for creating a gender equal workplace
* Family and sex
- Campaign for promoting an egalitarian sexual culture "I
am the Owner of My Body"
- Supportive activities for sexual and domestic violence cases
- Activities to promote an open society with alternate forms
of families
- The single mother support
* Counseling
- Counseling on sexual discrimination upon employment, sexual
harassment,
verbal and physical violence in the workplace
- Counseling for victims and offenders of sexual violence
- Counseling on domestic violence, sexual problems and family
problems
- Counseling provided through the Internet, telephone and
face-to-face interviews
* Women's Health
- Activities for developing women's health issue based on
gender equality.
- Activities related to women's health issue according to
life cycle
- Monitoring biotechnology related to women's bodies
- Campaign for against lookism "I am the Owner My Body
- No Diet, No Plastic Operation"
- Movement to create the birth delivery culture respecting
women (movement to reduce caesarean birth deliveries)
* Media
- Monitoring media reports on general elections and presidential
elections
- 'Green Media Award'presentation for beneficial programs
for children and women
- Viewers Campaign <Reforming the worst program>
* Life Co-op
- Developing and practicing alternate lifestyles
- Persuading producers to produce and consumers to consume
life-durable and
environmentally friendly commodities
- Movement to build local communities based on gender equality
and show respect for life
* Local Policy
- Reforming local governments' policies on women and introducing
gender sensitive budget
- The 2nd Women's suffrage movement (movement to launch women
candidates in local assembly)
- Movement to ensure human rights and social rights for women
in the community
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Let Korean WomenLink make the year
2006 touched with feminism~
The 2006 Korean
WomenLink's major activities :
Change sexist cultures / Eliminate the gender division of
work
Secure women's health rights
Spread feminism and women's movement through public awareness
education
Stabilization of Consumers Cooperative, Realization of Women
Green Consumers Cooperative
Enhancement of prevention education campaigns against school
sex violence with attention to that offenders' age is being
lowered.
Proliferation of gender equality through active participation
in Public Access
First, change sexist conceptions
and cultures
The 'Making Saeng Saeng City' project or Making a City Lively
with Gender Equality in Daily Life is to collect gendered
colors, signs, words and charters that we can see at public
institutions and others in everyday life, raise a question
about them and propose alternatives for them.
Second, eliminate the gender
division of work
There is a project for gender equality at work, childbirth
and child raising. Through providing practical details on
men's participation in child raising and house work and publicity
to do away with gendered stereotypes, we intend to say that
men's participation in child care labor is a key solution
to the gender equality at work, childbirth, and child raising.
Third, secure women's heath
rights.
A health project for female youths, 'Change Physical Education'.
In spite of socially high interest in healthy life, in school
education focused on college entrance examination, in particular,
for girl students, their health is neglected because of the
pressure on appearances and emphasis on beauty, male-centered
programs of physical education, and so on. What is more, while
the logic that the future and interest of Korea depend on
biotechnology only was dominant, women's health rights were
neglected. So, continuing to shape public opinion on women's
health rights, a issue of human rights, we attempt to come
to a social agreement.
Fourth, spread feminism and
women's movement through public awareness education.
A variety of education projects are aimed at initiating feminist
discourse and understanding the direction of women's movement.
The education movement is being carried out to obtain support
groups for women's movement and Korean WomenLink in various
areas as well as discourse understanding. For example, there
are the Feminist School, the Economy School for Women, Education
to Raise Awareness of Lookism, Preventive Education against
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Training for Sexual Violence
Counselors, Education for Women and the Media, and Training
for Women Labor Counselors.
Various activities of affiliated
organizations
Korean WomenLink has the affiliated Consumers' Cooperative(KWLCC)
and Sexual Violence Counseling Center. At the 2006 general
meeting, Headquarters for Media Movement became an affiliated
organization to engage in more specialized activities and
conduct its intensive campaigns.
Affiliated Consumers' Cooperative
KWLCC aims to collect 1,580 members this year and sets sales
goal at 7.8 billion won. KWLCC is an important medium of WomenLink's
movement as well as its goal. Keep membership extension in
mind! This year KWLCC strives to encourage members to participate
and stabilize regional Consumers Cooperatives, and is doing
its best to realize Women Green Consumers' Cooperative and
outline the future vision of KWLCC.
Affiliated Sexual Violence Counseling
Center (SVCC)
SVCC pays attention to that the age of sex offenders is becoming
low and its chief action plan of 2006 is to lead a strong
preventive campaign and education against sexual violence
in school. Through the awareness campaign during the festivals
of middle, high schools and colleges, SVCC intends to heighten
sensitivity to sexual violence and launch an massive anti-sexual
violence campaign. SVCC will work to systematize education
for sexual offenders to be kept from committing a second offense
and not to spread a distorted conception of sexual violence
by monitering media coverage of adolescent sexual assault
cases.
Affiliated Headquarters for
Media Movement (HMM)
2006 is the year for HMM to take a first step as an affiliated
organization. Actively participating in Public Access, HMM
is eager to spread social awareness of gender equality. HMM
formed the Film Production Division and the Team of Teachers
Specialized in Media and is running them. HMM takes vigorous
action to raise awareness of viewers' sovereignty and gender
equality through Public Access whose main body becomes women.(¡ãTop)