2024 Human Rights Day Campaign · December 2024 2024 · THE BEGINNING From a Classroom to Our First Action We encountered difficult realities, listened to people’s stories, and took our first step toward collective action. DEC 12 Where Our Story Began Our journey began in a classroom while taking the course Forced Migration and Human Security. Through the course, we encountered stories of people facing realities far more serious than we had previously understood. What we learned challenged us and changed the way we saw the world around us. DEC 12 Our First Human Rights Campaign Moved by those stories, we organized a Human Rights Day(Dec. 10) campaign on campus. Thankfully, the Daejeon Regional Office of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) and the Human Rights Center at CNU helped us conduct the campaign. The campaign introduced the experiences of people affected by conflict and forced migration, as well as the NGOs and activists working alongside them.
DEC 12 Where Our Story Began Our journey began in a classroom while taking the course Forced Migration and Human Security. Through the course, we encountered stories of people facing realities far more serious than we had previously understood. What we learned challenged us and changed the way we saw the world around us.
DEC 12 Our First Human Rights Campaign Moved by those stories, we organized a Human Rights Day(Dec. 10) campaign on campus. Thankfully, the Daejeon Regional Office of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) and the Human Rights Center at CNU helped us conduct the campaign. The campaign introduced the experiences of people affected by conflict and forced migration, as well as the NGOs and activists working alongside them.
2025 Unified Action for a Global Challenge · Tokyo 2025 · LEARNING AND CONNECTION Learning Beyond the Classroom We began meeting students, diplomats, practitioners, and international organizations working on the issues we had first encountered through our studies. APR 04 Unified Action for a Global Challenge We attended Unified Action for a Global Challenge in Tokyo, Japan. Together with students from Canada and Japan working to develop and implement complementary education pathways, we exchanged perspectives on human rights issues and learned from one another’s experiences. The gathering also gave us an opportunity to consider what we could do as a student-led organization for the people whose stories we had first encountered in class. MAY–JUN 05 Studying with Friends from ICU Following the Tokyo forum, we continued our exchange with friends from International Christian University. Over three study sessions, we explored historical and social issues and shared perspectives shaped by our different academic and social environments. MAY 05 Dialogue with the Canadian Embassies We met migration programme officers from the Embassies of Canada in Korea and Japan. We discussed how universities could expand access to higher education for youth from conflict-affected regions and learned about the work being undertaken by the Government of Canada. Continuing the relationships formed in Tokyo, we also discussed how a Korea–Japan–Canada student network could be sustained over the long term. MAY 05 Sharing What We Had Learned We delivered a special lecture for Life and Politics, a general education course offered by our department. Through brief but focused storytelling, we shared what we had learned and introduced difficult realities to students beyond our immediate group. JUL 07 Learning from Practitioners We met a migration programme officer from the Embassy of Canada in Korea and staff members working on related issues at UNHCR Korea. Through these conversations, we discussed what students could realistically contribute and learned from people working directly in the field.
APR 04 Unified Action for a Global Challenge We attended Unified Action for a Global Challenge in Tokyo, Japan. Together with students from Canada and Japan working to develop and implement complementary education pathways, we exchanged perspectives on human rights issues and learned from one another’s experiences. The gathering also gave us an opportunity to consider what we could do as a student-led organization for the people whose stories we had first encountered in class.
MAY–JUN 05 Studying with Friends from ICU Following the Tokyo forum, we continued our exchange with friends from International Christian University. Over three study sessions, we explored historical and social issues and shared perspectives shaped by our different academic and social environments.
MAY 05 Dialogue with the Canadian Embassies We met migration programme officers from the Embassies of Canada in Korea and Japan. We discussed how universities could expand access to higher education for youth from conflict-affected regions and learned about the work being undertaken by the Government of Canada. Continuing the relationships formed in Tokyo, we also discussed how a Korea–Japan–Canada student network could be sustained over the long term.
MAY 05 Sharing What We Had Learned We delivered a special lecture for Life and Politics, a general education course offered by our department. Through brief but focused storytelling, we shared what we had learned and introduced difficult realities to students beyond our immediate group.
JUL 07 Learning from Practitioners We met a migration programme officer from the Embassy of Canada in Korea and staff members working on related issues at UNHCR Korea. Through these conversations, we discussed what students could realistically contribute and learned from people working directly in the field.
2026 The Establishment of Unlabeled · January 2026 2026 · A NEW FOUNDATION Unlabeled Takes Shape What began as learning and informal action became an organized student community with a clearer direction. JAN 01 The Establishment of Unlabeled Unlabeled was formally established as an academic society affiliated with our department. We began creating the administrative and practical foundations needed to pursue our goals and transform what we had learned into sustained action. OUR STORY CONTINUES We are still learning what meaningful student action can be. Every meeting, project, and new relationship becomes another part of the story we are building together.
JAN 01 The Establishment of Unlabeled Unlabeled was formally established as an academic society affiliated with our department. We began creating the administrative and practical foundations needed to pursue our goals and transform what we had learned into sustained action.