Commission's Major Activities National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2016 specialized children care institutions can offer psychological and emotional counselling and treatment to the victims. To minimize the educational neglect caused by child abuse, the Commission recommended the Minister of Education to establish criteria for deferment and exemption of compulsory education, refine the educational content by developmental stage, and establish a system for managing out-of-school educational options such as home schooling. It also recommended a revision to Article 29 of the Enforcement Decree of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, to ensure that the opinions of child victims can be heard when the deferment or exemption of compulsory education is reviewed and that they be assisted by a child psychologist or a child development expert during that process. C. ‌Recommendations to use Indicators for Identification and Protection of Victims of Human Trafficking With the emergence of trafficking in persons (TIP) as a global issue and the adoption by the United Nations of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish TIP, Korea strengthened legal controls over human trafficking by amending the Criminal Code in April 2013 to include provisions on human trafficking crimes (Article 289). Despite these efforts, however, human trafficking is still narrowly viewed in the Korean society as the trading of persons like goods. In light of a need to present specific indicators to identify and protect human trafficking victims at the scene, the Commission recommended the Minister of Justice, Ministry of Employment and Labour, Ministry of Gender Equality & Family, National Police Agency, and metropolitan municipalities on 20 June to come up with measures to prevent human trafficking and protect victims using the Indicators for Identifying and Protecting Victims of Human Trafficking. These indicators consist of 27 indicators for identifying victims by act, mean, and purpose of human trafficking under the United Nations Protocol to Prevent Trafficking in Persons, and 15 indicators for protecting victims through shelters, measures taken by the police, actions taken with respect to immigration procedures, medical services, and protection for additional harm. 26