Ⅱ Recommendation for NAPs 26. States should take appropriate steps to ensure the effectiveness of domestic judicial mechanisms when addressing business-related human rights abuses, including considering ways to reduce legal, practical and other relevant barriers that could lead to a denial of access to remedy. 27. States should provide effective and appropriate non-judicial grievance mechanisms, alongside judicial mechanisms, as part of a comprehensive State-based system for the remedy of business-related human rights abuse. 2) The UN Guiding Principle above describes not only the importance of judicial remedy addressing human rights abuses by business enterprises but also the duty of the State to support and provide non-judicial remedy for victims. 3) The most representative example of non-judicial grievance mechanism is the National Contact Point (hereafter referred to as “NCP”) based on the OECD Guideline on Multinational Enterprises. The NCP investigates corporate activities that violated the OECD Guideline, collects public opinions on the issue with victims participating in the process and provides a forum for discussions to find solutions. 4) Korea has set up the NCP in 2001, which has been in operation since. In 2011, the National Human Rights Commission of Korea recommended that the NCP should invite the stakeholders to participate and cooperate, improve access to its website and revise its rules of procedure to guarantee transparency and responsibility in its work. 27

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