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Chapter 3
Education and Promotional Activities for
Shaping Favorable Human Rights Conditions
Section 1. Overview
In view of raising public awareness about human rights, the Commission carries out human
rights education and promotional activities based on subparagraph 5, Article 19 of the NHRC
Act. People can enjoy their rights only when they know what their rights are. Thus, educational
rights are respected and people are treated equally. Prompted by the recent increase in public
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programmes or promotional activities can be conducive to creating a society in which human
interest in human rights education in businesses, the legal requirement for education to improve
and hate crimes in 2016, the Commission conducted various educational and promotional
programmes to effectively address this situation.
Human rights education
Given the political situation that makes the enactment of the Human Rights Education
Support Act challenging, another way of shaping institutional arrangement for human rights
education is to plan for the establishment of the Human Rights Training Institute. Through this
planning effort, the Commission was able to shed light on the need for this type of organization.
Also, given the increasing demand for human rights education, the reinforcement of the human
rights instructor training programme is significant in that it lays the foundation for a stable and
appropriate use of human rights instructors.
The Commission also strengthened its network for cooperation on human rights education.
These efforts include development of human rights education content by topic, joint educational
programmes with relevant organizations, hosting of meetings of the special committee for
human rights education and council meetings, and establishment of an educational council for
training on the human rights of persons with disabilities. In addition, four regional human rights
education centers were revitalized to enhance accessibility to human rights education and raise
the quality of the programmes.
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the public perspective on disabilities, and the particularly high interest in social inequality