Comprehensive Study on Youth's Status (a repeated cross-sectional survey by the
Ministry of General Equality and Family), as these large-scale studies use inconsistent
questions and different survey respondents, due to a lack of the system of connection or
cooperation with each other.
13. The Government could build a comprehensive and streamlined system
to manage the statistics on children, under which any overlapping or omission of
data in the statistics released by various organizations can be easily detected and
the current status and trends of children's human rights can be identified.
5. Public Awareness and Education on the CRC (CRC/C/KOR/3-4 para.
50~53, 58~67 and 402~405)
14. Sufficient educational or promotional efforts have not been made to raise
awareness on the CRC and relevant General Comments and Recommendations among
children and the general public, as well as those engaged in the work related to children,
such as judges, prosecutors, police officers, public officials, teachers and social workers.
According to the Comprehensive Study on the Status of Children and Youth in Korea,
which was conducted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare among 6,900 households in
2009, merely 24.8~39.1% of the parents (grouped by the age of their child) responded
that they had heard about the CRC. On the children's part, 14.2% of those aged 9~11
and 22.6% of those aged 12~18 said in the affirmative. The Government-run websites
on the rights of the child are not easily accessible to children as its structure is designed
for adult Internet users.
15. The contents or elements of human rights education are partly contained
only in the school subject of social studies or moral studies. Accordingly, there is a lack
of connectivity or systematization in human rights education. The NHRCK has called
for formulation of a 'law on human rights education' with a view to promoting human
rights education in public institutions, including schools, and the civil society, but no
visible progress has been made toward enactment of such law.
16. First of all, the Government needs to take actions to ensure that a
human rights education course for school students is created to interlink curricular
and extracurricular activities related to human rights, customized human rights
education programs are developed and disseminated and the education on
children's human rights is incorporated in the curricula of the institutions for
teachers' training and education. Second, human rights education needs to be
reinforced in the basic and upgrade training/education courses for those engaged
in child-related work, and educational materials should be developed and
distributed for parents or guardians and the employees of child-related institutions.
Third, all of the relevant Government-run websites needs to be made accessible to
children. Fourth, the law on human rights education needs to be enacted at the
earliest possible time.
6. The Measures Taken by Local Governments to Guarantee Children's
Human Rights (CRC/CKOR/Q/3-4 para. 28-1)
17. Recently, some local governments have taken measures to set up an
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