contract form mandatory when providing subsidies. To root out sexual harassment and violence
grievance settlement system and the victim protection system, the creation and distribution
of guidelines and manuals for the prevention of sexual harassment and violence, preventive
education, and the reinforcement of on-site investigations..
Ensuring the Protection of the Human Rights of Asylum-Seekers
Negative public sentiment rapidly spread throughout the nation when over 500 Yemenis, who
had fled from their war-torn country, came to Jeju Island in April and May 2018 and sought
refugee status. Some of the groundless, distorted, and exaggerated arguments were reported by
the media and taken as fact due to a lack of understanding of refugees and information about
the actual conditions in their countries, their culture, and their religion. This led to intensifying
public anxiety and the filing of a petition entitled Petitioning for the Abolition of and Necessary
Constitutional Amendment for the Refugee Act, Admission without Visa, and Approval for
Refugee Status on the Cheong Wa Dae website on June 13.
We issued the Chairperson's statement three times, urging the government to clarify its stance
and come up with measures for asylum-seekers in compliance with international human rights
standards and the Refugee Act, while also interviewing asylum-seekers several times on-site and
calling for fair examinations through meetings with officers in charge of screening refugees. We
staged the Talks on the Role of Media on August 30 and created and distributed leaflets and card
news to help eliminate related bias.
Conducting a Joint Investigation on Sexual Violence Committed by the Military
during the May 18 Democratization Movement
We launched the Joint Investigation Team for Sexual Violence Committed by the Military
during the May 18 Democratization Movement on June 8 jointly with the Ministry of
National Defense and the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family to investigate accusations
of sexual violence committed during the military crackdown on the pro-democracy Gwangju
demonstrators. The joint investigation team was co-headed by the Commission Secretariat
General and the Vice Minister of Gender Equality and Family and consisted of 12 members
(excluding the heads) from the three institutions.
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at colleges related to culture and arts, we proposed measures such as the upgrading of the