Introduction National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2016 Korean Human Rights Forum on timely topics, including arrivals of overseas North Korean workers and defectors. Efforts were also made to help North Korean defectors settle down in their new communities in Korea. These include making recommendations to enhance public awareness of defectors and institutional improvements to eliminate discrimination against them, policy reviews to promote defectors’right to work, and surveys of defector’s human rights awareness. The Commission interviewed newly arriving North Korean defectors to accumulate data on human rights infringements in North Korea, and published a lexicon on North Korean human rights in Korean and in English to support relevant research and activities. 18