Promoting Human Rights-Conscious Management
Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and enhanced their operational transparency through
recommendations for their institutional improvement.
On two occasions, we held the Human Rights-Conscious Management Forum targeting
heads of public institutions to bring attention to and institutionalize human rights-conscious
business practices, while also recommending the application of the Human RightsConscious Management Manual and the implementation of human rights-conscious business
practices. Driven by our initiative, a number of public institutions are pushing ahead with the
institutionalization of human rights in their management, and central ministries and upper-level
local governments that have jurisdiction over such public institutions are working to include
relevant criteria in their management assessments.
Promoting the Right to the Protection of Personal Data
We recommended the introduction of regulations for the installation and operation of an
integrated CCTV control center as well as the improvement of the identification system based
on the Regulations on Security Work.
Reinforcing the Rights to Life and Safety, Environment, and Culture
We recommended and identified current conditions for the reinforcement of the rights of
workers involved in hazardous and accident-prone industries through such activities as the
institutional improvement for the promotion of the rights to health of workers suffering from
CWP as well as workers exposed to reproductively harmful factors and their children, the
promotion of the human rights of groups vulnerable to the harmful effects of fine dust pollution,
and our inspection of the Taean Thermal Power Plant accident site.
We included persons with disabilities in the target groups specified in the fine dust pollution
control manual and recommended institutional improvements such as the compulsory
installation of air purifying devices and indoor air quality management at all childcare centers.
Moreover, we conducted the Factual Survey on the Status of and Improvement Measures for
Human Rights Protection of the Socially Vulnerable during Disasters including Large Fires to
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We increased the diversity of the members of the National Contact Points for the OECD