www.humanrights.go.kr As a follow-up, the Commission established a plan to implement the MOUs with metropolitan municipal governments and their education offices, strengthening its role as a control tower. In 2016, it also signed an MOU with the Jeollabuk-do provincial government, Daejeon metropolitan government, and organized joint human rights education programmes. Meanwhile, the Commission took part in the 7th International Human Rights Education Conference (Santiago Chile, 11-17 December) to share information on issues related to human rights education and establish an international network for cooperation. Notably, the Commission strengthened its mutual cooperation with the Chilean Human Rights Commission, by providing it with relevant educational materials from Korea to help the organization The Commission also resumed the Human Rights Education Forum, which had been education in the public sector and discussed future directions. The forum participants, including human rights officials in local governments, civil human rights group personnel, and human rights instructors, shared their opinions on human rights education. Also, in view of a sustainable development of the society, which is a newly emerging human rights topic, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Human Rights Forum and the Debate on Human Rights Education for Care-givers were also co-hosted to raise awareness on new human rights issues and lay the foundation for human rights education cooperation with civil groups. 3. Expansion ‌ of human rights education through human rights education centers In 2016, the Commission organized 3,702 human rights sessions (for 207,619 persons) of various types, including training programmes, visiting programmes, cyber human rights education, and special human rights lectures. This represents a significant increase over the previous year, with 47.5% and 42.9% increase in the number of sessions and audience size, respectively. An important factor behind this quantitative growth is the systematic and standardized operation of human rights education. In addition, the amendment of the Act on Welfare of 81 Commission's Major Activities suspended after the meeting in 2011. The forum reported the current status of human rights Part II strengthen human rights education in elementary and secondary education.