Appendices
National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2016
2. The 4th Action Plan for the Promotion of Human Rights (2015~2017)
Vision
Mission
World of Dignity for All
Ensuring and upgrading basic human rights for everyone to safeguard their dignity and value as a
human being and consolidate the basis of a democratic society
Four Strategic Targets
Goals
I.
Laying a foundation to
promote human rights
1. Ensuring freedoms, including personal freedom, freedom of speech
2. Protecting social rights through a stronger social safety net
3. Implementing and monitoring National Action Plan for the Promotion and
Protection of Human Rights (NAP) recommendations
4. Bringing international human rights norms into the society
5. Introducing human rights evaluation system
II.
Protecting human rights of
the vulnerable and marginalized
1. Improving human rights for children, youths, and senior citizens
2. Rectifying discrimination against people with disability and improving their
human rights
3. Correcting gender discrimination and sexual harrassment and reinforcing
women's human rights
4. Guaranteeing human rights for immigrants and Korean nationals aborad
5. Strengthening remedies for those in human rights blind spots
III.
Spreading the values of
human rights in society
1. Reinforcing local people's accessibility and spreading the values of human
rights across the country
2. Expanding human rights policies, including the enactment of the Human
Rights Education Support Act
3. Developing, distributing, and utilizing human rights education contents
4. Operating human rights education in a systemic way
5. Raising human rights awareness through vibrant promotion activities
IV.
Highlighting human rights issues
and strengthening cooperation
1. Resolving labour market polarization and isolation
2. Spreading and upgrading human right-friendly business operation culture
3. Strengthening the right to information with the emergency of an
information-driven society
4. Studying and researching new human rights agendas
5. Upgrading exchange and cooperation with human rights institutions and
groups in- and outside Korea
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Prerequisites
(Strengthening the capacity of NHRCK)
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1. Improving the North Korea human rights situation
1. Publishing book about the past 15 years of the Commission
1. Bolstering the independence of the Commission
2. Enabling everyone in the Commission to build a greater professionalism