happening again. The local government attempted to justify its action by saying that they obtained the images of the children through legitimate source that took care of the publicity right and the claimed nudity featured in the poster was not as serious as images used in other countries and did not have any implication of obscenity or abuse. Even though the images were taken with consent of guardians including use and alteration for commercial purposes, the Commission still ruled that use of images for highly controversial issues and situations such as the one in question should be recognized as an exceptional situation that supersedes the legal implication of the parental consent. Thus, using and altering the children’s images for the purpose of free-lunch protest was in violation of their rights. 2) Violation of Civil Rights of Students by Excessive Corporal Punishment and Act of Vengeance A part-time teacher of XX High School used corporal punishment on two students for falling asleep during class, and one student (“victim”) suffered injury requiring 3-week treatment. It was the mother of the victim who filed a complaint to the Committee requesting to thoroughly investigate the case and abolish corporate punishment at school. Interviews with a principal, a vice principal, and teachers, however, indicated a disheartening lack of understanding of corporal punishment being a serious civil rights violation of students. The school announced some measures on its own such as destroying corporal punishment paddles and offering human rights education, but rooting out corporal punishment that is so deeply engrained in school culture seems to be a much more difficult task to accomplish. The Office of Education in charge of XX High School was also criticized. Although it has the responsibility to monitor the situations of corporal punishment and complaints at XX High School and enforce aggressive necessary measures, it only scratched the surface by conducting a special audit into the incident and vengeful insults from other teachers targeting the victim following the incident. Chapter 3. Investigations and Remedies: Civil Rights Violations 95