National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2015
The promotional campaigns for human rights also include: production of movies on human
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its Facebook and Kakao Story account.
rights, the Mobile Movie Theatre service (on five occasions), Small Movie Screening events (two
occasions), Dialogue with Citizens through Movies (three occasions), a web-toon series (22 in
in total) on YouTube.com.
4) Highlighting Human Rights Issues and Strengthening Cooperation
To ensure stable employment and the protection of human rights for workers, the Commission
has:
1. expressed an opinion on the government’s proposal for the comprehensive solution to
address issues in temporary employment on May 26th;
2. made a recommendation to eliminate the practice of hiding industrial accident cases, and
strengthened the risk prevention efforts to protect workers from in-house subcontractors on
November 12th;
3. conducted a survey on the human rights situation of domestic workers without employment
benefits from March 26th to September 25th;
4. conducted a survey on the safety and health rights of fire officers from March 27th to
September 25th; and
5. held a discussion on how to ratify the Fundamental Conventions of the International Labor
Organization (ILO) related to the freedom of association on September 30th.
To promote human rights in business management, the Commission conducted the study on
the National Action Plan (NAP) on business and human rights from May 14th to November
13th. In addition, the Chairperson of the Commission participated in the 2015 UN Forum on
Business and Human Rights hosted by the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights.
He was invited as a high-level panel member for the NAP session and the opening ceremony.
In the event, the UN commended the hard work of the Commission in implementing the UN
Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
To protect human rights to information in this highly informatized society, the Commission
has:
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total), and posting foreign films (12 in total) as well as original films from the Commission (10