The May 18 Memorial Foundation is delighted to announce you that The Foundation has selected 6 organizations from 5 countries to receive Grant for Human Rights and Democracy Projects in Overseas 2013. &...

2013-03-08 

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the iconic leader of Burmese Democratization Movement and the laureate of the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights 2004, finally arrived in Gwangju City on 30 January 2013. Her official schedu...

2013-02-01 

 The inauguration ceremony of the 11th  Chairperson of the May 18 Memorial Foundation was held on 25 January 5:00PM in the May 18 Culture Center.  Jae-yiel Oh, the new chairperson takes off...

2013-01-28 

Aung San Suu Kyi Visits Gwangju on 30 January 2013     Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of democracy Movements in Burma and the laureate of the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights in 2004, will visit Metropolitan...

2012-12-03 

May 18 Peacejam Ambassadors education program on Dec 1, 2012, the program was all about the presentation on different topic form the ambassadors themselves and all the ambassadors were divided into three different gro...

2012-12-03 

  On 5 - 6 November 2012, in Bali, Indonesia, the Civil Society Forum on Advancing Substantive Democracy in Asia: The Roles of Civil Society and Democratic Governance was held in conjunction with...

2012-11-21 

We are pleased to share with you, we successfully conducted May 18 Peace jam Ambassadors education program on 17 November 2012 on the topic of All about Burma, the struggle for the Democracy “Courage to Act” , Stor...

2012-11-19 

On 5 - 6 November 2012, in Bali, Indonesia, the Civil Society Forum on Advancing Substantive Democracy in Asia: The Roles of Civil Society and Democratic Governance was held in conjunction with the ...

2012-11-12 

May 18 PeaceJam Ambassadors Education Program on Nov 3, 2012 We are now coming to an end of PeaceJam education program. This was the second last regular education program. The topic was “Breaking the Cycle of V...

2012-11-05 

We had a regular PeaceJam education program on Oct 20.  The topic was “Equal Rights for Women”. There were mainly three parts in the program: 1.      Discussion on the topic with...

2012-10-22