The Commission also offered modified human rights programs to business owners and
Human Resources personnel of companies which employ persons with disability to respond
to growing interest in corporate social responsibility and human rights-oriented business
management and enactment of the Disability Anti-Discrimination Act, and prevented
discrimination against disability at work. In addition, with revision of the Mental Health
Care Act and enactment of the Act on Welfare and Support for Homeless etc., the
Commission played a leading role in offering human rights education in the field of mental
health by actively responding to demands for human rights education from mental health
clinic employees.
Moreover, in order to promote recognition of diversity based on a human
rights-oriented perspective and understanding on multi-cultural society, the Commission
offered a human rights sensitivity improvement course to local government officials of
Gyeonggi Province and facility staff who contact multi-ethnic families in person, which is
deemed having contributed to building network between related departments and
government officials of the province.
The Commission took advantage of cultural contents on human rights developed for
human rights education and promotion in order to spread awareness on human rights and
facilitate the education, and provided a variety of sectors in Korean society with cultural
contents on human rights.
It expanded exposure of the Commission to the public via diverse media and
approaches by agenda and promoted its major policies and achievements. The films
'Juvenile Offender' (2011) and 'Beyond the Eyes' (2009-2010) led the public to
spontaneously enhance their sensitivity to human rights with a cultural approach targeting
the masses. Additionally, the Commission distributed 12 types of human rights posters
with texts and paintings drawn by undergraduate students, socially vulnerable groups and
minorities under the theme of 'Human Rights Story in My Life', and promoted its
activities strategically by utilizing a diversity of channels including networks, blogs,
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