sedentary for longer hours while they spend fewer hours on outdoor activities and other sporting activities. Participation in sport is a necessity for children to promote their physical and mental health. In this light, the NHRCK declared the following, in Article 5 of ‘The Charter on Human Rights in Sports’ of 2010: Schools should guarantee children’s and young people’s participation in sports. a. b. c. A school is a place where children and young people develop physical and mental balance. Thus, schools should take responsibility to motivate children and young people to participate in sport and help them acquire relevant skills. Schools should ensure that a minimum of hours of sport is included in the curriculum in light of the maturity and development stage of children or young people. Schools should be equipped with sports facilities so that children and young people can enjoy various sports. Also, proper rules for using these facilities should be set in order to facilitate equal access. Questions suggested 75. The problem of education inequality, which is marked by the huge private education market, is serious. Education inequality which begins at the stage of primary schools may have a tremendous effect on the students’ entrance to colleges or universities at a later age. In addition, education inequality may work as a decisive factor in dividing people into regular and non-regular workforce in the labour market, aggravating income inequality among young people and ultimately leading to poverty in old age. There is an urgent need to normalize the public education system. Please specify the policy measures that the Government has taken and will take to normalize public education, and the expenditures spent or allocated for public education normalization. 76 Please provide detailed data which demonstrate the Government’s understanding about the seriousness of the children’s academic stress in the state party; provide the policy measures that the Government has taken to solve this problem and how successful or effective the measures are; and describe the Government’s plan for future relevant actions, along with the statements on the budgets spent or allocated. 77. Please give the Government’s view, with regard to any particular plan to formulate and implement active policy measures to guarantee child’s right to play. Issue 14: Child Abuse Current status 78. According to the key statistical data on ‘the Current Status of Child Abuse in 2015’ released by the National Child Protection Agency, a total of 19,209 cases of child abuse were reported in 2015 and the rate of child abuse reports increased every year. According to the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office (the announcement dated 12 April 2016), the number of people who were reported to have violated (the provision on child abuse of) the Criminal Act, the Child Welfare Act or the Special Act on the Punishment of Child Abuse Crime increased from 183 in 2011 to 2,691 in 2016. The number of 2,691 persons in 2015 is almost six times as large as the corresponding number (459 persons) in 2013, the time when the Special Act was not in place yet. The number of people indicted for crimes of child abuse also recorded a sharp rise: it was 49 in 2011 but increased almost by tenfold in 2015. 19 / 25