www.humanrights.go.kr Section 2. Key Progress 1. Institutionalization and foundation for human rights education A. ‌Institutionalizing human rights education in schools, public sector, and civil society Article 26 of the NHRC Act stipulates that human rights education is a main task of the Commission. As the only state organization in Korea in charge of human rights education, the Commission, monitored human rights education in 2016, to ensure that they are offered while analyzing relevant statutes and making policy recommendations. recommendations to the Ministry of Health and Welfare regarding the enactment and revision of statutes to make human rights education mandatory for staff and the elderly in geriatric care facilities and long-term sanatoriums, and also recommending legislative improvement for more efficient education targeting persons with disabilities assistants. The Commission also conducted inspections of public official education and training institutes, teacher training institutes, and colleges to monitor the status of human rights education in different domains. In line with the United Nations’second phase of the World Programme for Human Rights Education, it inspected 365 state, public, and private colleges in Korea to check the status of available human rights programmes and/or make requests for new lectures. This initiative helped strengthen human rights education at the college level, with approximately 300 colleges responding. The Commission reached out to 64 public official and teacher training institutes for a human rights education audit, and 55 of them (or 86%) responded. The findings showed a quantitative growth in human rights education, with programmes mainly focused on human rights public administration (case studies of human rights in local governments, and human rights in judicial administration, etc.), human rights 101 (human rights sensibility, understanding of human rights, etc.), and women’s rights (prevention of sexual harassment and sexual violence, etc.). The survey results will be used for reinforcing human rights education. 77 Commission's Major Activities The Commission worked to institutionalize human rights education by making Part II in public institutions, educational institutions, protective facilities, and various other domains,