Annual Report 2014 NHRCK plans to develop policy recommendations. Moreover, it tried to address discriminatory acts based on sexual orientation by determining that a local government’s forbidding a sexual minority group from using its public facility, on the sole basis that it was a sexual minority group, constituted a discriminatory act. B. Special and Featured Projects 1) Improving North Korean Human Rights Reflecting the increasing interest in the North Korean human rights situation, and the ways to improve it by the international community, including the UN, with heightened expectations in regards to the role of a national human rights institution, the NHRCK has designated and promoted the improvement of human rights in North Korea as its special task since 2009. The year 2014, in particular, saw significant progresses in this regard such as the launch of the report of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) on human rights in the DPRK (February), the adoption of the report in the UN General Assembly, and the adoption of the UN General Assembly Resolution on the Human Rights Situation in the DPRK including referral to the International Criminal Court (November). Accordingly, the move to enact a North Korean Human Rights Act became accelerated with a draft bill, co-sponsored by the ruling and opposition parties, put forth to the National Assembly. Against this backdrop, the NHRCK also made active efforts to contribute to the improvement of North Korean human rights including: recommending the early enactment of a North Korean Human Rights Act proclaiming the NHRCK as a main agency in charge of North Korean human rights and placing the North Korean human rights documentation center & archives within the Commission; delivering its opinion 16 ▪▪▪ Part I. Introduction