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Develop a cross-sector collaboration platform aiming to immediately respond to disasters, collaborating with other sectors including the government, business and social sectors.

Our mission is to protect lives and human rights of North Korean people. We strive to achieve our goal through assistance to North Korean refugees hiding in third countries and continue to assist them with their re-settlement and education in South Korea. Our ultimate goal is to support a development of a generation of successful young North Koreans who will drive toward peaceful re-unification of the two countries and will become a bridge between North and South, if the two countries unify. In supporting human rights improvements in the country, we focus on providing information about the situation inside and encouraging international community to raise their voice against the abuses.

DonInRyun (Solidarity for LGBT Human Rights of Korea) started as LGBT Association of Korean Universities in 1997 and has changed its name to the current organization, DonInRyun in 1998, and since then our organization has been one of the leading representative LGBT groups in Korea. Many gender diversities, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/ transsexual, and intersexual have come together to develop a society which respects the human rights of minorities. Any heterosexuals who are in favor of minorities' human rights are able to join our activism on equal terms. Since diversity is valued, all our members are endeavoring to enhance the awareness of human rights of everyone so as to avoid any unintended-discriminations against other members, based on disease, education, age, gender, and sexuality. These are the ten principles of the organization: 1. We, as a human rights organization representing the rights of sexual minorities who are mostly discriminated and marginalized within the power structure of Korean society, endeavor to retrieve the human rights of those who have been treated unequally based on gender and sexual identity. 2. We recognize that sexual minorities living in the Korean society are suffering from unjust and unreasonable oppression and want to counteract the efforts to deny the human rights of the sexual minorities. 3. We actively express solidarity with social minorities, such as the common laborer, women, migrant worker, the disabled, PLWHA, refugee, children, youth, and the poor who are not free of discrimination and oppression, and try to develop an equal society where everyone respects human rights and diversity. 4. We strive to abolish discriminatory elements like social status/position, age, and sex (gender). 5. We make efforts to communicate with sexual minorities across the world by strengthening solidarity between other human rights groups/organizations, including international solidarity. 6. We endeavor to get rid of all discrimination by sex (gender), social class (stratification), and any isolation of LGBT community. 7. We perform actions together with heterosexuals on equal terms who are in favor of sexual minorities' human rights. 8. We fully support individual's coming-out and respect his/her opinion about the coming-out process. 9. We advocate for producing a diversity of sexual minorities' culture. 10. We respect individual's sexual autonomy.

Graduate Women International (GWI), founded in 1919 as the International Federation of University (IFUW), is a worldwide, non-governmental organisation of women graduates. GWI advocates for women's rights, equality and empowerment through access to quality secondary and tertiary education and training up to the highest levels. GWI's mission is to: Promote lifelong education for women and girls; Promote international cooperation, friendship, peace and respect for human rights for all, irrespective of their age, race, nationality, religion, political opinion, gender and sexual orientation or other status; Advocate for the advancement of the status of women and girls; and Encourage and enable women and girls to apply their knowledge and skills in leadership and decision-making in all forms of public and private life.

An estimated 800,000 children in the European Union are separated from an imprisoned parent on any given day. Yet few people are aware of the impact that a parent's incarceration can have on a child. Children separated from a parent in prison frequently experience multiple emotional and social difficulties associated with their parent's incarceration. They not only have to cope with the parent's absence and the disruption of the child-parent bond, but are also vulnerable to social exclusion, financial hardship, discrimination and shame. Children of Prisoners Europe (COPE) is a pan-European network which encourages innovative perspectives and practice to ensure that the rights of these children (as enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Convention on Human Rights) are fully respected and that action is taken to secure their well-being and healthy development. The network is a membership-based organisation made up of non-governmental organisations and individuals across Europe and beyond, linked by a staff team based at its French headquarters. Raising awareness among child-related agencies, prison services and policymakers to the specific needs of children of prisoners and promoting initiatives that take these needs into account, the organisation is seeking to: - Expand programmes that support the child-parent relationship and help minimise violence for children with an imprisoned parent; - Introduce the child's perspective throughout the criminal justice process, from arrest to resettlement; - Foster cross-sectoral collaboration among public and private agencies involved in supporting and making decisions about children of prisoners; - Obtain better information and greater visibility for prisoners' children and influence policy at the national, European and international level on their behalf; - Promote the exchange of initiatives, expertise and good practice for children with imprisoned parents; - Enhance the competence of professionals within the field. Working to foster the promotion and provision of policies, frameworks and meaningful action on behalf of children affected by parental incarceration to protect their development and well-being, our aim is to ease the burden of the imprisonment of a parent on the child.

Bunny Buddies' Mission: To save and improve the lives of domestic rabbits and enrich the relationship between rabbits and their human caregivers. Through a network of animal shelters, veterinarians, foster families, and volunteers, Bunny Buddies works to save domestic rabbits from abandonment and euthanasia, provide them with necessary veterinary care and spay/neuter and foster them until permanent adoptive homes can be found. We also educate the public and shelter volunteers and staff about proper care and to mitigate the widespread misconceptions and misinformation about these wonderful creatures. We are currently raising funds to open Houston's first rabbit-only shelter.

YVC is a network connecting and empowering LGBTQ+ adolescents and young adults between ages of 15 to 30 years to advocate on their health, safety and security, and social acceptance in Asia and the Pacific. Youth Voices Count envisions a society in which young people of [all] sexual and gender diversity including [those that identify as] lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer identities lead safe and free lives with equal opportunity to achieve their full potential and well-being.

Our mission is to realize peace in East Asia, including the Korean Peninsula, and sustainable life for young people. 1. Beyond the conflicts and antagonisms of East Asian countries, we want to create a symbiotic community centered on 'peace' and 'prosperity'. For this, PWK will become an East Asian platform that manages the absolute crisis facing mankind and achieves the UN sustainable development goals(UN SDGs). We are going to take a new path that will serve as the cornerstone of peace on the Korean Peninsula and peace community in East Asia. 2. PWK will send young Koreans to international cooperation sites and train them. Foreign NGOs who have entered Korea tend to stick to fundraising. They neglect to send young people to international cooperation sites. When young Koreans grow up solving various challenges at the international cooperation sites, they will be able to become the people who fit into the new era and lead our future. 3. PWK will support North Korea, which faces the worst situation in the world, but has unlimited potential. Instead of unilateral support, we are trying to help North Korea to promote co-prosperity as partners who will live together in East Asia. As history shows, symbiosis is the only way in East Asia.

ORGANIZATION Strengthening the governance of an organization that is adaptive, innovative, and globally accessible. RESOURCES Enhancing inclusive collaboration among stakeholders in humanitarian crisis response and community development. IMPACT Developing programs by harnessing community resources to promote self-reliance.

SHARE, the center for Sexual rigHts And Reproductive Justice is the first organization in South Korea to provide comprehensive and intersectional services related to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). SHARE is dedicated to researching and proposing laws and policies related to SRHR, providing medical information and support, and offering resources and training programs for comprehensive sexuality education (CSE). SHARE aims to build a society where everyone can enjoy their sexual and reproductive rights and achieve social justice. [Vision] SHARE creates a society where everyone enjoys sexual and reproductive rights without being discriminated against or excluded and, based on sufficient information and equal resources, mutually builds capacity. [Mission] SHARE creates a heartwarming and comfortable space where anyone can visit at any time without hesitation and share any kind of story. SHARE creates an environment for grounded and accurate counseling and accessible treatment and creates a society free from discrimination. SHARE forms networks with diverse fields and social movements at home and abroad and raises civil society's awareness of SRHR. SHARE builds systems whereby diverse people can access sexual and reproductive information and support needed in their lives and creates and provides educational materials that are easy to understand comprehensive and include sufficient content. SHARE researches on and publicizes laws and policies to realize sexual rights and reproductive justice based on field circumstances and experiences. [Values] SHARE fights against unjust power that infringes on sexual rights and reproductive justice. SHARE aims at a horizontal culture and operation and emphasizes members' capacity-building and happiness. SHARE supports people's right to experience and discover failure and joy in their lives and newly creates a language of rights whereby people can realize lives of their wishes instead of charity or protection. SHARE challenges normality and, based on intersectionality and diversity, forges solidarity and creates change. In the process, it shares experiences with and mutually builds capacity with civil society organizations (CSOs). SHARE is based on and organizes the field at the same time. SHARE is aware that our activities are part of a broad movement to promote human rights and, as an organization based in non-Western Asia, maintains a postcolonial viewpoint. SHARE rejects stigmas, pity, judgments, and correction, affirms all of our pleasures and desires, and supports people's independent and free search for their rights. SHARE resists the illegalization and criminalization of particular kinds of sex and reproduction and activates rights instead of prohibitions.

To be reborn as the cradle of gender education for a gender-equal society To promote global exchange, cooperation and to spread a culture of gender equality Education platform encompassing various areas

The Korea Foundation for Women (KFW) took its first steps in December 1999 with a dream of a world where daughters live in equality and harmony. For more than two decades, the KFW has dedicated itself to support public interest activities working for a gender-equal society and inspiring underprivileged women to nurture hope and pursue their dreams. Furthermore, it strives to realize alternative ways of life based on caring communities and cultures of sharing. As Korea's first private public interest foundation for women, the passion of the Foundation to create 'hope for daughters' will continue long into the future.