ANNUAL REPORT 2015 conditions and practices by sending the results of the monitoring activities to the facilities concerned in order to encourage their voluntary effort. As a result, more than 90% submitted their plans to make improvements. After the project came to an end, the Commission held an open briefing on the progress of the monitoring project and published the 2015 Report on the Results of On-site Monitoring on the Anti-Disability Discrimination Act. G. Monitoring project on child and youth rights In June, the Commission began to work on the monitoring project on children’s rights, which was transferred from MOHW in April. The topic of the monitoring project was solutions to ensure the human rights of abused children and runaway youth. In addition, it conducted a basic survey on the status of domestic implementation of the international standards on child rights. The goal of the project was to look for solutions after studying how existing legislations and policies on the human rights of children and youth work, what the current issues are, and why the dead zones of human rights appear. With a group of experts (including 16 child abuse experts and 15 runaway youth experts), the Commission conducted the project from June to November. To receive feedback and advice and ask for policy review regarding the project, it also operated an advisory group of experts. There were many human rights issues raised at the open briefing sessions (one for runaway youth on November 23rd, and another for child abuse issues on December 11th) on the progress of the monitoring group and advisory group. The tasks presented from the child abuse briefing include: defining the concept of “noninterference”, preventing educational noninterference, eliminating the dead zone of parental rights, improving the birth registration system, strengthening protection measures for abused children, and protecting informants of child abuse cases. On the other hand, the proposed tasks for runaway youth were: eliminating the dead zone of parental rights, improving the working environment for youth, ensuring the right to education for youth, strengthening health and medical service support, protecting them from prostitution, reorganizing the functions of protection agencies, improving supportive measures to help the youth stand on their feet, and improving the system of protective disposition pursuant to the Juvenile Act. Through the basic survey on the status of domestic implementation of the international 56 | National Human Rights Commission of Korea