National Human Rights Commission of the Republic of Korea
Guidelines for Business and Human Rights and Checklist which were
made available with public and private enterprises in December 2013.
The Commission expressed its opinion on the draft bill on the Support
of Home Coming of Korean Foreign Direct Investment Firm. In its
opinion, the Commission pointed out that support restriction provisions
in the bill should be considered to exclude U-turn Korean foreign direct
investment firms with a history of human rights violations in foreign
countries. The Commission's Investigation on Human Rights Violations
of Korean Foreign Direct Investment Firms and Research on Legal and
Institutional Improvement may be cited an important effort to prevent
human rights violations of Korean foreign direct investment firms and to
propose improvement measures to devise remedial action for the victims.
C. Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and the
Promotion of Human Rights
With the development of ICT devices, the problems of personal
information violations by government entities and private firms have
been widely dealt with. ICTs and human rights have received an
increasing amount of attention both internationally and domestically
along with the enactment of the Personal Informational Protection Act
in
Korea.
Under
such
circumstances,
the
NHRCK
included
the
improvement of human rights with regard to ICTs in its Third
Three-Year Action Plan as one of its featured projects. The objectives of
the
project
are:
i)
promoting
institutional
improvements
and
establishing standards for the protection of information privacy, ii)
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