Key Activities In the area of children rights, the Commission examined how and with what procedures schools are handling school violence. The intent was to understand what human rights violations occur in that process and what kind of institutional improvement would be necessary to prevent them. To ensure proper implementation of international human rights standards in the areas of children rights, the Commission expressed opinion, monitored, and actively responded to the consideration by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child of the fifth and sixth periodic report of the Republic of Korea. It also conducted children rights monitoring activities and organized a children rights conference. The Commission used a multilateral approach to combat discrimination in all domains of the society and promote the rights of persons with disabilities, women, sexual minorities, and other socially vulnerable groups, as these issues require not only improvement in institutions, policies, and practices, but also a change in public perception. To further the rights of persons with disabilities, various policy alternatives were proposed, including guarantee of right to access information, a roadmap for deinstitutionalization, promoting the mental health and human rights of children and youths, support with regards the challenging behaviors of students with developmental disabilities, and improved admissions screening process of mental healthcare facilities. As an extension of the Me Too movement of 2018, it also made policy recommendation on ways to prevent sexual harassment and sexual violence in culture and the arts. The Commission also expressed an opinion on a number of issues identified during petition investigations. It challenged the pay gap experienced by irregular school workers, disadvantages suffered by conscientious objectors when making a vocational choice, and excessive restrictions placed on persons of mental disabilities when making financial transactions. It also warned against use of the scholarship program to instigate academic factionalism, and politicians’ use of disparaging comments about persons with disabilities. The opinion expressed to the Constitutional Court on illegal abortion was positively assessed for the publicity effect and for affecting the ruling that illegal abortion is unconstitutional. The Commission worked to raise public awareness on sexual harassment and disability issues by publishing and distributing a sexual harassment casebook and a guide to provision of convenience services for persons with disabilities. 64