rd rd August 2011 on the 3 and 4 Consolidated Government Report submitted by the Korean Government to the Committee on December 2008. Prior to that, it prepared the Information Note in January 2011 on the Pre-session Working Group to draft a list of issues to be raised by the government during the deliberation by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. To prepare the opinion report, the Commission gathered a wide range of voices from experts on the rights of the child, special committee members of the Commission, and NGOs. The opinion covered a total of 9 sections including 8 fields (general measures of implementation, general principles, civil rights and freedoms, family environment and alternative care, basic health and welfare, education, leisure and cultural activities, and special protection measures) and 2 optional protocols as well as 50 key tasks, based on the government reporting guidelines of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC/C/58/Rev.2, hereafter 'CRC'). More specifically, it included i) 8 tasks on general measures of implementation including saving clause withdrawal, policy coordination and monitoring, budget for children policies, data collection, promotion and education on the convention, and measures by local governments to protect the rights of children; ii) 7 tasks on general principles including prohibition of discrimination against migrant children, etc., suicide of children, and respecting children’s opinions; iii) 6 tasks on civil rights and freedoms including freedom of expression, assembly and association, freedom of private life, and corporal punishment at school; iv) 6 tasks on family environment and alternative care including child support, adoption, and child abuse and neglect; v) 7 tasks on basic health and welfare including education and care of children with disability, mental health of children, support for children, and children in poverty; vi) 7 tasks on education and leisure and cultural activities including competition-driven education, low public education expense and high private education expense, and children who discontinue school education; vii) 6 tasks on special protection measures including protection of the labor rights of child, sexual violence against child, and protection of the right of student athletes; and viii) 3 tasks on optional protocol including child pornography and child sex 50 Part II. Major Activities of the Commission

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