Commission's Major Activities
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offices, and human rights organizations. The awarded media (photos, webtoons, and UCC) were
placed on exhibit at the Human Rights Week event and the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights event. They were also published on new media channels such as the Commission’s
facebook, Kakao Story, and blogs, and used as educational and promotional materials to
promote human rights.
5. Operation of human rights libraries
The human rights libraries facilitate research, collection, analysis, and preservation of
human rights-related information and materials, offering reading and loan services, registering,
managing, and preserving Commission publications and engaging in exchange and cooperation
with other libraries in Korea and abroad. A variety of human rights information is available on
library websites.
[Table 2-3-3] Human Rights Library collections
Type of material
Collection
Type of material
Collection
Book
30,368 types 42,434 volumes
e-Journal
3,102 types
Nonbook
4,468 types 6,930 pieces
Web-DB
8 types (6 types of academic
data / 2 types of legal data)
Periodical
102 types
e-Book
1,883 volumes
In cooperation with human rights offices, the Commission operates annex libraries (Busan,
Gwangju, Daegu, Daejeon) to offer membership and free delivery services for older persons and
persons with disabilities, and to expand human rights library services for local residents. This
initiative is an effort to make access to and use of human rights information convenient for all
population.
The Commission has organized showings of human rights films and children’s human rights
books exhibitions every year in various parts of the nation. This effort is aimed at making
human rights issues more relevant to the general public. Since 2012, it has organized in-school
programmes on human rights for elementary, junior-high, and high-school students, and citizens
with an interest in human rights issues.
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