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August 2011 on the 3 and 4 Consolidated Government Report submitted by the Korean
Government to the Committee on December 2008. Prior to that, it prepared the
Information Note in January 2011 on the Pre-session Working Group to draft a list of
issues to be raised by the government during the deliberation by the Committee on the
Rights of the Child.
To prepare the opinion report, the Commission gathered a wide range of voices from
experts on the rights of the child, special committee members of the Commission, and
NGOs. The opinion covered a total of 9 sections including 8 fields (general measures of
implementation, general principles, civil rights and freedoms, family environment and
alternative care, basic health and welfare, education, leisure and cultural activities, and
special protection measures) and 2 optional protocols as well as 50 key tasks, based on the
government reporting guidelines of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
(CRC/C/58/Rev.2, hereafter 'CRC'). More specifically, it included i) 8 tasks on general
measures of implementation including saving clause withdrawal, policy coordination and
monitoring, budget for children policies, data collection, promotion and education on the
convention, and measures by local governments to protect the rights of children; ii) 7 tasks
on general principles including prohibition of discrimination against migrant children, etc.,
suicide of children, and respecting children’s opinions; iii) 6 tasks on civil rights and
freedoms including freedom of expression, assembly and association, freedom of private
life, and corporal punishment at school; iv) 6 tasks on family environment and alternative
care including child support, adoption, and child abuse and neglect; v) 7 tasks on basic
health and welfare including education and care of children with disability, mental health
of children, support for children, and children in poverty; vi) 7 tasks on education and
leisure and cultural activities including competition-driven education, low public education
expense and high private education expense, and children who discontinue school
education; vii) 6 tasks on special protection measures including protection of the labor
rights of child, sexual violence against child, and protection of the right of student athletes;
and viii) 3 tasks on optional protocol including child pornography and child sex
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