B. Promoting the Rights of Children and Youth Monitoring Children's Rights We monitored all aspects of children's rights in accordance with international human rights standards through policy monitoring, on-site monitoring, individual monitoring, and policy research. First, we formed a children's rights policy forum with relevant experts and assessed the compliance of Korea's policies and systems with international human rights standards based nation's policies and systems were examined across diverse areas from general principles to civil rights and freedom; violence; home environment and alternative childcare; disability, basic health, and welfare; education; and special protection. Second, we sought institutional improvement measures regarding school violence by conducting on-site monitoring through the monitoring panel of 15 police officers, teachers, and civil society activists and holding discussions on the results. Third, we selected 141 children from ten regions (Seoul, Gangwon-do, Gyeonggi-do, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Gyeongsangnam-do, Chungcheongbuk-do, Chungcheongnam-do, Jeollabuk-do, Jeollanam-do, and Jeju-do) and monitored them individually under a common theme (My Right to Play) and region-specific themes (Career Path and College for Children, Custody of Children, Students' Rights Ordinances, Youth Right to Work, and Harmful Environments near Schools) to seek ways to raise their awareness on their rights and reinforce the public's interest in the human rights of children and youth. Fourth, we conducted the Study on Joining the Third Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as policy research and dealt with overseas cases of pushing ahead with the joining of the protocol, which allows children to bring complaints directly to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and the controversies that it may entail. Staging a Forum on the Enactment of a Special Act on the Seongam Reformatory Case and Support Measures for Victims Seongam Reformatory was established on Seongamdo Island near Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2018 63 Part 2 | Commission's Major Activities on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child through policy monitoring. The