Recommendations and Suggestions
22. Despite the relatively abundant available resources and capacity of the ROK, there is a lack in the
government’s contribution to improvements in the international human rights situation. The
government should develop projects for capacity building and technical assistance, cooperating with
the NHRCK and civil society, as it has voluntarily pledged upon its election to the Human Rights
Council. The government also should consider how to incorporate human rights perspective in its
official development assistance.
23. The ROK has obligations to implement the international human rights instruments to which it is
party. For national implementation, the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches should all take
part in. For this purpose, the government should develop national mechanisms for the Legislative and
Judicial branches to participate in the implementation of international instruments, and at the same
time it should find effective ways to proliferate the instruments.
24. Human rights education should be provided to personnel in law enforcement including judges,
prosecutors, public officials and social welfare workers. In addition, human rights education
programs should be included and strengthened at all levels, types and channels of education in a
comprehensive way. To do this, laws on human rights education should be passed and the
government should identify ways to expand human rights education.
25. The ROK should abolish the National Security Law and death penalty and introduce policies for
conscientious objectors in a prompt manner as the UN human rights bodies recommended. Also it
should ratify the OPCAT and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
26. The government should take diplomatic efforts and measures across ministries to make sure that
North Korean defectors overseas be protected from refoulement and enjoy humane treatment. It also
should take humanitarian efforts to improve the quality of living and the rights of North Koreans.
Annex: Examples of Policies not Included in the National Action Plans for the Protection
and Promotion of Human Rights