Opinions on the first National Report of Korea on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for the sake of formality or neglects to mention them in part. ⑥ Third, the Guidelines demand that statistical data should be presented for the comparison and confirmation of the implementation of the States’ obligations and the protection of rights of persons with disabilities corresponding to respective articles of the Convention. However, the National Report does not provide sufficient statistics necessary for the analysis of human rights status of persons with disabilities from the user’s perspective, by failing to provide statistics related to education, labor and employment of persons with disabilities but just providing overall status of supply and size (from the government’s perspective). ⑦ Fourth, the National Report introduces domestic laws and the status of human rights on the basis of the types of disabilities set forth in the Persons with Disabilities Welfare Act, thus failing to provide sufficient explanations on the human rights status of persons with psychosocial disabilities including persons suffering mental diseases as prescribed in the Mental Health Act. ⑧ Fifth, Article 33 Clause 3 of the Convention provides “Civic organizations, particularly those which represent persons with disabilities may sufficiently intervene and participate in the process of supervision.” However, participation of the organizations of persons with disabilities was limited in the preparation of the National Report. 1.3 Direction of written opinion provided by the National Human Rights Commission ① In order to prepare its written opinion, the Commission reviewed the National Report with a focus on the following aspects, considering that the UN Committee on Rights of Persons with Disabilities deliberates the National Report for the purpose of suggesting concluding opinions and NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA 4

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