G. Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities (Articles 28-31) Issue 32. School textbooks and human rights 117. In 2018, the NHRCK, after monitoring the textbooks in elementary and secondary schools and examining and analyzing 49 kinds of textbooks for the 3rd and 4th graders in elementary school and for middle and high school students to see how human rights are described in those textbooks, came up with a proposal to address the human rights violations in the illustrations, photographs and texts of the textbooks examined. In 2017, the NHRCK, after monitoring 30 kinds of textbooks for the 1st and 2nd graders in elementary schools to check if human rights perspectives are properly applied to the textbooks, and announced the findings of the monitoring and asked for the MOE's action for improvement. Prior to that, the NHRCK recommended the Government to improve its policy actions to ensure that school textbooks all conform to the human rights standards, on 5 occasions during the period of 2009~2013. 118. The NHRCK's monitoring in 2018 found some improvements in school textbooks: the lessons on human rights were included in the textbooks of moral education and social studies and a fewer number of illustrations, photographs and texts were infringing upon human rights. However, some textbooks still described house chores and childcare mostly as women's responsibilities and portrayed women as being physically and mentally weaker than men, which is feared to create gender-based stereotypes among students. Moreover, no student with migrant background appeared in the textbooks and the students with disabilities were all portrayed as being on wheelchairs, and the textbooks also failed to show a diversity of family compositions, with an emphasis on the typical family composition of a married couple and 1~2 children. 119. In order to develop human-rights-friendly school textbooks, the Government should streamline the school textbook monitoring system and promptly address the discriminations and prejudices found in the textbooks. In addition, the Government should facilitate students', parents' and teachers' participation in the process of textbook development, increase human rights education for teachers and expand the coverage of human rights education to include the responsible people from school textbook publishers and the authors of school textbooks. 29