rights. We also visited the sites of a sit-in atop a high-rise structure and a hunger strike, served as the on-site protector of human rights at protests opposing the THAAD deployment, and monitored the status of human rights protection at large-scale demonstrations in urban centers. We focused our resources on publicizing the need for the introduction of alternative civilian service and the abolition of the death penalty. To build public consensus on alternative civilian service, we expressed our opinion on the proposal for the partial amendment of the Military Service Act for the introduction of alternative civilian service and conducted a factual survey on ways to introduce alternative civilian service for conscientious objectors. We staged an international seminar on the abolition of the death penalty and conducted a factual survey on its abolition and alternative punishments to highlight this issue. We developed new policy tasks and proposed human rights agenda items to avoid loopholes in human rights protection and promote the human rights of the socially vulnerable by conducting a factual survey on the protection of the lives and right to safety of the socially vulnerable in case of disasters; promoting the right to health of those engaged in the mass culling of infected animals, such as treatment for trauma; and offering measures to protect the socially vulnerable against fine dust pollution, etc. We devised government performance assessment standards in 2018 and based on these standards, assessed compliance with the Commission's recommendations and other efforts to promote human rights at 43 central administrative institutions and 243 local government bodies. The assessment has encouraged government institutions to better put into practice the Commission's recommendations and to develop and fulfill human rights tasks voluntarily. To establish new human rights promotion and protection mechanisms, we pushed ahead with the enactment of the Framework Act on Human Rights and the launch of the system of the officer for the protection of the human rights of military personnel as well as the enactment of the Human Rights Education Support Act and the installation of the Human Rights Training Institute to institutionalize human rights education. However, as our efforts failed to produce significant results, it seems necessary to more aggressively appeal to the public regarding the need for human rights education and draw up new strategies. We will be hosting the APF Annual Meeting in 2019, the first in 15 years since 2004, which is expected to serve as momentum for Korea to elevate its standing in the international community. We faithfully fulfilled our role as a quasi-international institution by recommending 32 Introduction