session on Children's Right to Play was held to present the results of individual monitoring.
The conference was attended by over 100 public officials from central ministries and local
governments, human rights experts, etc., and over 600 citizens and provided a platform for
sharing the Commission's monitoring results and discussing diverse issues concerning children's
rights.
C. Promoting Seniors' Rights
On November 22, we held a seminar to come up with policies aimed at resolving hostility
towards seniors and intergenerational conflict in association with the ASEM Global Ageing
Center and the Korean Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics. This seminar served to
identify the reality and diverse aspects of intergenerational conflict that may lead to hostility
towards seniors and to highlight the need for policy and institutional improvements for social
integration.
The first part of the seminar dealt with the diagnosis of the intergenerational conflict and
gerontophobia of our society, while the second part sought strategic measures to bring different
generations together. This seminar is evaluated to have shed light on the need to not only make
institutional arrangements but also take social and cultural approaches to successfully prevent
and resolve gerontophobia and intergenerational conflict.
We plan to continue to deal with these issues as they affect all generations and all corners of
our society.
D. Promoting the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Monitoring to Prevent Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities
We worked to prevent and remedy discriminatory acts and protect the human rights of persons
with disabilities specified in the Act on the Prohibition of Discrimination against Persons with
Disabilities, Remedy against Infringement of their Rights, Etc. (hereinafter referred to as the
Disability Discrimination Prohibition Act) through monitoring and sought ways to improve
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Part 2 | Commission's Major Activities
Staging a Seminar on Seniors' Rights