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On the 26th, the National Solidarity for the Elimination of Disability Discrimination (Jeonjangyeon) announced the launch of the \”420 Joint Campaign to Eliminate Disability Discrimination\” and said it will hold a two-day national conference focused on disability rights.
Disability-rights organizations, including Jeonjangyeon, opened the launch ceremony for the \”Seoul 420 Joint Campaign to Eliminate Disability Discrimination\” and the \”2026 Seoul Election Coalition to End Disability Discrimination\” in front of Seoul City Hall in Jung‑gu, then carried out four rallies and marches.
Organizers estimated roughly 300 participants. Demonstrators marched from City Hall to the Cheongunhyoja‑dong community center near the Blue House in Jongno‑gu and held related gatherings there.
The newly formed 420 Campaign urged lawmakers to pass disability-rights legislation addressing mobility, education, and deinstitutionalization.
With Disability Day approaching on the 20th of next month, the groups demanded that the government abandon paternalistic, charity-based approaches and reject the state’s ceremonial framing of disability as something to be \”overcome.\” They called for renaming \”Disability Day\” as the \”Day for the Elimination of Disability Discrimination.\”
They pointed to the Saekdongwon human-rights disaster as a stark example of the tragedies that can occur when the state confines people with disabilities to closed institutions and neglects them. The coalition argued that decisive government action and meaningful budgetary commitments are essential to ensure people with disabilities can live as full citizens in their communities.
Jeonjangyeon also urged that the 2027 government budget include funding specifically for disability rights and pressed lawmakers to formalize measures such as the Act to Guarantee the Right to Independent Living for Persons with Disabilities and the Act to Guarantee Mobility Rights for Transportation‑Disadvantaged Populations.
The groups plan to hold an overnight, two-day demonstration near the Blue House and are seeking meetings with the Minister of Health and Welfare, as well as with the Democratic Party’s floor leader and party chair.
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