Issue 5. Independence of the national human rights institution – in relation to para. 2 of the List of Issues 11. The NHRCK formed a team dedicated to the rights of the child in 2014, and this team was promoted to a separate division – Child Rights Division – in February 2017. Although the law specifies that full consideration should be given to the independence of the NHRCK in terms of its organizational structure, the Child Rights Division was set up as a temporary division which would last for a limited period of 2 years, under the directive of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS), and the work of the Child Rights Division over the 2 years would be evaluated by the MOIS. Based on the results of the MOIS’s evaluation, the existence of the Division was extended for another 2 years, at the end of 2018. Consequently, the work of the Child Rights Division of the NHRCK is subject to the MOIS’s evaluation for another following 2 years which ends on February 28, 2021, and the Division’s further existence will, again, depend on the outcomes of the MOIS’ evaluation. Therefore, the NHRCK's organizational foundation is not strong enough for the NHRCK to perform independent and stable work to promote the rights of the child (the same thing can be said about some other divisions of the NHRCK, including the International Human Rights Division, the Armed Forces Human Rights Investigation Division and the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Division). 12. The Government should guarantee the independence and organizational security of the NHRCK so that the NHRCK may fully perform its role of promoting and protecting the rights of the child. Issue 6. Production and management of comprehensive and disaggregated statistical data concerning children’s rights situations – in relation to para. 2 of the List of Issues 13. The National Youth Policy Institute, a state-run research institute, conducts ‘the Survey on the Human Rights Situations of Children and Youths’ which covers about 9,000 children of between the 4th year in elementary school and the senior year in high school (10~18 years of age) across the country, on an annual basis. This Survey is a state-authorized one and is equipped with the children’s rights index based on the CRC. 14. As of 2019, the children’s rights index of the Survey consists of 120 individual indicators: 43 indicators are generated by the direct questionnaire-based survey while 77 indicators are based on the administrative statistical data or the findings of other surveys. This Survey is the only statistical data that helps identify the time-series trends in the situations of children’s rights, and may be used by researchers who are interested in this issue as its raw data 4