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Also, upon completion of the 14 initiatives, the Commission selected the six best joint
cooperative programmes among them to widely promote best cases.
C. Exchanges, including on-scene visits
The Commission visited vulnerable groups to listen to their opinions, identify policy tasks,
gather the opinions from facilities/institutions staff, and discuss current human rights issues.
In 2016, the Commission paid a total of seven visits, including a foreigner welfare center in
Namyangju, a children protective institution in Gwangju, and a protective facility for persons
immigrant women, and persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities about their
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with disabilities. The Commission heard directly from foreign immigrant workers, married
experiences of human rights abuse, and received suggestions from social workers and rights
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activists. This allowed the Commission to reflect these views in its policies and programmes.
2. Exchanges
and cooperation with international human rights
organizations and groups
A. GANHRI and APF
1) Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)
GANHRI is a global alliance of NHRIs established to comply with, develop, and reinforce
the resolution adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council on 3 March 1992 and
the Principles relating to the Status of National Institutions (the Paris Principles) adopted by
resolution of the United Nations General Assembly in 1993. Previously known as the ICC
(International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection
of Human Rights), the organization adopted the new GANHRI name in March 2016.
Every year, the Commission participates in the GANHRI General Meeting and Bureau
Meeting to strengthen multilateral exchanges and cooperation with NHRIs. The agenda of the
29th session held in March 2016 included ICC statutory changes, role of NHRIs in conflict and
post-conflict situations, role of NHRIs regarding refugees, and adoption of a human-rights-based
approach to confronting violations such as racism.
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