Opinions on the first National Report of
Korea on the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities
TV stations and IPTVs which provide reasonable accommodation for persons
with disabilities. No statistics on the implementation status of mandatory
education and supply vs. demand for pre-schooling of children with disabilities
in Clause 113, no statistics on the ratio of persons with disabilities to all
university students and the installation rate of the Disability Support Centers in
Clause 116. The lack of such information poses an obstacle to examining the
implementation status of the Convention.
2) Recommendation
The government should build a system to manage various statistics on persons
with disabilities individually produced by ministries and public organizations, in a
more comprehensive and systematic manner. It is also necessary that statistics
on persons with disabilities should be compiled in a more specific manner, such
as by type of disabilities (ex: statistics of traffic accident statistics, disease
incidence rates, disaster incidence rates, etc. broken down by type of disabilities)
and by beneficiaries to policies (ex: students, women or children with disabilities,
persons with developmental disabilities) so as to capture the human rights status
of persons with disabilities in more details.
18. Article 33. National implementation and monitoring
18.1 National Human Rights Commission as Monitoring Organization of the
Convention
1) Current status and problems
① The Commission was founded in 2001 as an independent organization not
affiliated with any of the legislature, the administration or the judiciary in
accordance with the Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions or
called the ‘Paris Principles. The National Human Rights Commission Act
stipulates the independence of activities of the Commission, and provides for
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