On Nov. 22, Yeosu City holds a human rights class with the topic of ‘We Are All Precious“ for marriage-based immigrants at its Multicultural Family Support Center located in Singi-dong.

At the lecture, Director Lee Chun-jin of Yeosu Women’s Human Rights Support Center will serve as a lecturer and provide a detailed guide to basic laws guaranteeing human rights, human rights protection programs, human rights abuse reporting methods etc. The lecture will focus on actual help for marriage-based immigrants regarding freedom of marriage, duties of family members, divorce, and inheritance.

Especially, the lecture will analyze causes of domestic violence through its actual cases and present solutions while providing a guide to Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Crimes of Domestic Violence, protection for victims, and medical support.

A city official said, “The class has been prepared to help multicultural families to increase their ability to legally cope with various problems occurring in their daily life and thereby actively exercise and benefit from their rights such as human rights.”

Committed to promoting marriage-based immigrants’ settlement in the city, Yeosu City’s Multicultural Family Support Center engages in diverse-ranging activities such as Korean language education, discovering and providing emergency supports to families in crisis, supporting employment, counseling and mentoring, and interpretation & translation services.