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B. Enhancing human rights education in schools, including monitoring of
textbooks
The Commission held a human rights-friendly textbook development workshop with human
rights personnel in municipal and provincial governments, teachers, and textbook writers. The
workshop presented examples of discriminations and human rights abuses in elementary, junior
high, and high school textbooks, and outlined a set of criteria to make textbooks more human
rights-friendly. The Commission also participated in a textbook screening session hosted by
the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation in an advisory and editorial capacity. The
Commission was able to correct or rewrite contents or illustrations that are not up to human
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rights standards, while opening a channel of consultation with education authorities.
Since its inception, the Commission has managed programmes to foster human rights
instructors to lay the foundation for advancing human rights education across society.
In 2016, the programme was further expanded to include more classes in issues related to
infants, persons with disabilities, immigrants, homeless, mental health care, sports, and children.
Areas related to the elderly, social welfare, and development disabilities were also newly added.
The Human Rights Offices also conducted some educational programmes to facilitate human
rights education in the local communities.
Upon completion of the instructor training programme, an independent panel of judges
comprising human rights (education) specialists evaluated the instructors based on their lecture
presentations. In total, 229 instructors were appointed.
2. Establishment
of domestic and international networks of
cooperation for human rights education
The Commission worked to establish a domestic and international networks of cooperation
to advance implementation of human rights education. In view of strengthening a network of
cooperation with the relevant human rights education organizations, the Commission organized
the military human rights education meeting, school human rights education meeting, homeless
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C. Fostering of human rights instructors