www.humanrights.go.kr department responsible for human rights business management, submitted the outcome of their checklist self-test, and announced their intention to work on the recommendations. This effort helped create a general consensus on the need for human rights-centered business management. However, as a follow-up, only ten institutions internally and externally announced their human rights business management declaration, showing that no specific actions were taken to monitor their human rights commitment in a sustainable manner. Thus, the Commission determined that the inclusion of human rights elements in the nonfinancial assessment categories would help create an institutional framework for public institutions to ensure human rights in a more concrete and effective way, rather than making a Part II mere declaration. Given the characteristics and serious side effects of child abuse, the Commission sees it important to find victims of child abuse, and effectively protect them, as their interest is of the highest priority. Thus, on 19 May, it recommended legal amendment and policy improvement to the ministers of Ministry of Education, Ministry of Justice, and Ministry of Health and Welfare to prevent child abuse and protect the human rights of child victims. To the Minister of Health and Welfare, it recommended the establishment of a single reporting channel for institutions that have the obligation to report. This would facilitate reporting, provide victims professional help, clearly identify those that should be held accountable, expand children shelters, and introduce the system of foster care homes with funding considerations. It also recommended ways for children with foreign nationality or no nationality to receive proper protection regardless of their status of sojourn. To the Minister of Justice, the Commission recommended amendment to the Special Act on the Punishment of Child Abuse Crimes to make the appointment of court-appointed attorney and court-appointed assistant mandatory for child victims who are under investigation or in a trial. The Commission also recommended amendments to the relevant regulations so that 25 Commission's Major Activities B. ‌Recommendation to prevent child abuse and protect the human rights of child victims

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