sessions and meetings. Special teams were formed to deal with such pending social issues as school violence, human rights in the military and the right of the elderly. They were dedicated to publishing comprehensive proposals to improve relevant policies and institutional systems. These efforts resulted in 23 recommendations and 18 opinions, which contributed to the protection of basic human rights. The Commission strengthened its efforts to monitor the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in Korea. It is also notable that Korea will be under the second cycle of the universal periodic review (UPR), a comprehensive review of the human rights records of all United Nations Member States. As such, the Commission reviewed the progress of the implementation of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) recommendations for the last four years and submitted a country report compiling human rights issues to be improved in the future to the United Nations human rights watchdog. In addition, the Commission continued its activities to improve human rights conditions for migrants, people with disabilities and women by, for example, issuing recommendations and holding international conferences regarding the human rights of expats, submitting mid- to long-terms plans to improve the right of the disabled, and publishing the White Book on the Complaints of Sexual Harassment. Most notably, the Commission initiated the development of the Human Rights Index in response to the increasing need for such an index to use as a tool to assess human rights conditions in Korea as well as to improve and promote human rights. 40 Part II. Major Activities of the Commission