onsite investigations through which it actively responded to the human rights issues currently prevalent in society and achieved the desired outcome. C. Distributing Human Rights Education and Producing/Promoting Cultural Content about Human Rights The NHRCK, in accordance with Article 19 Subparagraph 5 and Article 26 of the National Human Rights Commission Act, provides essential human rights education and promotional activities in order to increase people’s awareness about human rights. In 2012, the Commission developed a human rights education and training basic plan in order to stabilize and facilitate the operation of the Human Rights Education Center, to lay an institutional foundation that meets the requirements suggested by the human rights education standard of the United Nations, to standardize and spread human rights educational content, and to develop and distribute cultural content on human rights. As a result, the Commission provided human rights education in a total of 1,300 sessions to 124,937 persons in 2012. Most notably, the Enforcement Regulations on the Welfare and Support for Independence of Homeless People was implemented in June 2012, and accordingly, around 1,500 employees participated in human rights education. The online human rights education system of the Commission, called the Leaning Management System (LMS), was upgraded and online programs for citizens were made available in May. Furthermore, the NHRCK involved in active promotional activities by using various media and different technologies to improve the notion of human rights, form a human rights-friendly culture as well as to inform about the Commission’s major projects, policies, functions and roles. The Commission has published a magazine “Human Rights” and used blogs and newsletters to promote the Commission in a steady, consistent manner. The Commission also utilized Facebook and blogs and developed and distributed 32 Part I. Introduction