Annual Report 2013
increased for several reasons. First, there has been an increasing
concern for the human rights of people being held in mental hospitals.
Second, remedial actions by the Commission have gradually increased.
Third, standard complaint boxes have been distributed and employees in
group care facilities have received education since 2008. Fourth, the
Commission presented a country report on the mentally challenged in
2009. The number of counseling sessions in group care facilities has
been constantly rising, from 2,623 (38.9%) in 2009 to 7,589 (55.0%) in
2013, to account for more than all counseling applications. Counseling
for human rights violations relating to the prosecution, the police, law
enforcement agencies, and detention facilities gradually increased to
2010, showed a slight decrease in 2011, and rebounded since 2012.
Counseling for human rights violations perpetrated by local/provincial
governments and other governmental entities in 2012 and 2013 stayed
on the decrease and unchanged, respectively.
C. Counseling for Discriminatory Acts
Pertaining to counseling for discrimination, counseling on disabilities
has been in first place since 2008 when the Act on Discrimination
Prohibition was enacted. The number of counseling cases slightly
decreased in 2011, but increased again by 104 (12.5%) to 937 in 2012,
and increased by 175 (18.7%) to 1,112 in 2013. Counseling related to
sexual harassment (764 or 25.7%), social status (231 or 7.8%), other
discriminatory acts (217 or 7.3%), and age (197 or 6.6%) followed.
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II. Major Activities of the Commission
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