National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2017 19 Promoting the rights of older persons The Commission refined the concept of elderly rights, the perception of which had been identify systematic ways to improve the rights of this group. It conducted a survey of the human Part 1 limited to elder abuse and violence, and drafted a general report on the rights of older persons to rights conditions faced by older persons in rural areas, as previous surveys were focused mainly monitor seniors’ use of community health centers and other medical welfare facilities for seniors. The Commission’s recommendations for enhanced institutional protection of seniors with dementia were accepted by relevant government agencies. It carried out base studies on the implementation, limitations, and proposed development of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA), the definite Convention on the Rights of Older Persons, and the United Nations Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing. Promoting the rights of persons with disabilities The Commission was actively engaged in guaranteeing the right to better accessibility to transportation, facilities, and tourism for persons with disabilities. It made policy recommendations for enhanced access to small public-use facilities and expressed its opinion on how to guarantee this group the right to access tourism services. It called for enhanced public awareness of the rights of people with disabilities by monitoring the use of disparaging words in broadcast programs, recommending corrective action to a college professor who had made disparaging remarks and to a supervisor of a food company who had insulted a person with disability. The Commission called for increased public interest in the education of children with disabilities and urged that their right to education be guaranteed. To this end, it recommended policy to promote infants’ right to education, expressed its opinion regarding the public opposition to a proposed special school in Gangseo-gu District, and recommended that the nonoperation of AC units in special classes be corrected. The Commission’s efforts to promote the rights of the mentally disabled include organization of an international symposium for integration of the mentally challenged into local communities, Introduction on elderly population in urban areas. It also managed a Senior Human Rights Watch Group to