Commission's Major Activities
National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2016
Persons with Disabilities, effective as of 30 June 2016, made education to improve perception
of persons with disabilities mandatory. This has likely led to a rapid increase in the number of
people taking collective education and cyber education on human rights.
The Commission also organized 734 sessions (with 33,953 persons) for human rights
instructor training and human rights sensibility improvement for schools, public sector, and
general public. Compared to the previous year, this represents a 67.6% and 83.8% increase in
the number of education and the number of programme participants, respectively.
[Table 2-3-2] Human rights education statistics in the last five years
(in number of sessions and participants)
Total
Training curriculum
Visiting programme
Cyber programme
Special human rights lecture
Classification
Sessions
Participants
Sessions
Participants
Sessions Participants Sessions
Participants
Sessions
Participants
Cumulative 16,608 1,239,098
2,560
116,093
1,656
42,447
2,005
263,753
10,387
816,805
2016
3,702
207,619
734
33,953
380
5,930
828
71,434
1,760
96,302
2015
2,509
145,322
438
18,468
239
9,194
353
34,635
1,479
83,025
2014
2,334
164,075
334
14,325
206
4,926
288
34,744
1,506
110,080
2013
1,834
168,580
245
11,382
159
4,588
150
39,654
1,280
112,956
2012
1,300
124,937
214
10,456
119
2,204
109
21,550
858
90,727
* The cumulative figures total the numbers from the time the Commission was established (25 November 2001) to 31 December 2016.
4. Development and distribution of educational and promotional
contents
A. Development
and distribution of human rights educational contents
The Commission published human rights educational materials, including the Media Human
Rights Guide and Sports meet Human Rights, and produced a standard curriculum in this
respect. To support the development of human rights textbook, the Commission conducted
preliminary research for development of human rights textbooks for children and teenagers,
human rights textbooks for parents, human rights textbooks for older persons, and human
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