Unit for the Disability Anti-Discrimination Act focusing on the accessibility for people
with disabilities, ii) the establishment of a mid- to long-term plan for improving the
human rights of people with disabilities for the period of 2013 to 2017, and iii) proposing
recommendations so that major projects can be promoted in different phases within the
government. Also, the Commission plans to conduct a basic study into establishing a
foundation for allowing people with disabilities to live independently, and will publish a
country report in 2013.
As pertains to strengthening remedies for gender discrimination, the NHRCK
contributed to revising the Framework Act on Women's Development and pushed for the
enactment of the Gender Anti-Discrimination Act (tentative name), reinforced monitoring
on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination
against
Women
(CEDAW),
and
proposed
a
policy
on
a
performance-based bonus for teachers on maternity leave. Also, the Commission
conducted investigations on the human rights status of female soldiers and of runaway
girls in order to draw attention and establish the groundwork for improving the human
rights of women. As a part of campaign to change the awareness of female emotional
labor workers, the Commission produced and distributed a human rights notebook and
conducted campaigns in local regions.
In relation to discrimination based on age or educational background, the NHRCK
spearheaded the efforts behind making institutional improvement by cooperating with
related organizations to address the exclusion of teachers assigned on a short-term basis
from the application of the customized welfare system. The Commission, as a partial
effort to eliminate age discrimination in the workplace, held an open forum to mark the
3rd anniversary of the Act on Prohibition of Age Discrimination and gave a presentation
session about investigations on the differential retirement age, and studied employment
discrimination against service contractors working in government office buildings.
For the sake of the prevention of sexual harassment, the NHRCK published “the
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