Domestic and International Exchange Space
Realizing the Status of a Democratic, Human Rights, and Peaceful City
By continuously providing a space for domestic and international civil society exchange, we realize the status of a leading democratic, human rights, and peaceful city along with the spread of the 5.18 Spirit.
Gwangju Democracy Forum
Since 1999, it has been held annually in May, serving as a venue for the exchange and communication of international civil society activists centered around Asia. It explores creative alternatives and solidarity through issues such as human rights, democracy, peace, state violence, and regional conflicts in Asian civil society.
| 2023 | Gwangju Democracy Forum | 294 participants from 40 countries (Hybrid online/offline format) |
Theme: Solidarity for Democracy and Human Rights Advocates | |
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| 2022 | Gwangju Democracy Forum | 470 participants from 37 countries (Hybrid online/offline format) |
Theme: Finding Solutions to Global Crises - Solidarity for Everyday Recovery and Community | |
| 2021 | Gwangju Democracy Forum | 304 participants from 53 countries (Hybrid online/offline format) |
Theme: Post-COVID Global Democracy Today and Tomorrow | |
| 2020 | Gwangju Asia Forum | 249 participants from 20 countries (Conducted in two sessions) |
Theme: Solidarity for Justice and Peace in Asia |
| 2019 | Gwangju Asia Forum | 450 participants from 25 countries | Theme: Massacre, Refugees - State Violence and National Responsibility | |
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| 2018 | Gwangju Asia Forum | 400 participants from 22 countries | Theme: Time to Implement | |
| 2017 | Gwangju Asia Forum | 350 participants from 20 countries | Theme: Resist! From 1980 Gwangju to 2017 Candlelight | |
| 2016 | Gwangju Asia Forum | 350 participants from 25 countries | Theme: State Violence and Historical Distortion | |
| 2015 | Gwangju Asia Forum | 120 international participants | Theme: Solidarity for Social Justice |
| 2014 | Gwangju Asia Forum | 300 participants from 25 countries | Theme: Civic Responsibility for Achieving Democracy and Justice | |
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| 2013 | World Human Rights Cities Forum · Gwangju Asia Forum | 528 participants from 40 countries | Theme: Sustainable Human Rights Cities for All: Guidelines for Human Rights Cities | |
| 2012 | Gwangju Asia Forum | 300 participants from 25 countries | Theme: Towards Just Change | |
| 2011 | 2011 International Human Rights Cities Network · Gwangju Asia Forum | 400 participants from 25 countries | Theme: Globalizing Human Rights from Below | |
| 2010 | Gwangju Asia Forum | 400 participants from 25 countries | Theme: Asia Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow |
| 2009 | Gwangju International Peace Forum | 300 participants from 25 countries | Theme: Human Rights and Democracy Together | |
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| 2008 | Gwangju International Peace Forum | 188 participants from 21 countries | ||
| 2007 | 2nd Asia Human Rights Forum | 200 participants from 14 countries | Theme: Democratization in Asia | |
| Gwangju International Peace Forum · East Asia Human Rights Forum | 135 participants from 19 countries | East Asia Human Rights Forum (Forum Asia) · Asia Democracy Movement Gwangju Network Meeting (Foundation) | ||
| 2006 | Gwangju International Peace Camp | 120 participants from 15 countries | Theme: Conflicts in Asia and NGOs' Peacebuilding | |
| 2005 | Gwangju International Peace Camp | 100 participants from 10 countries | Theme: War, State Violence, Development, and Human Rights | |
| Asia Culture Symposium (supported by Ministry of Culture and Tourism) | 300 participants from 12 countries | Theme: Rethinking Asia in the Era of Globalization: Modernity and Forms of Life |
| 2004 | Gwangju International Peace Camp | 250 participants from 15 countries | Hosted by the Asian Human Rights Commission, 'Asian Human Rights School' | |
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| 2003 | Asia Democratic Victims' Families · Gwangju Invitation Event | 8 participants from 5 countries | ||
| 2002 | Asia Democratic Victims' Families · Gwangju Network | 7 participants from 3 countries | ||
| 2001 | Asia Democratic Victims' Families Network Event | 7 participants from 4 countries | ||
| 2000 | 4th East Asia Peace · Human Rights Gwangju Conference | 200 participants from 3 countries | Theme: East Asia Peace · Human Rights Declaration | |
| 1999 | Meeting of Victims of State Violence in East Asia | 11 participants from 7 countries |
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