2. Five Strategic Projects A. Assuring the Basic Freedom in Practice Ensuring fundamental rights to freedom is a starting point toward achieving universal human rights, the basis of the Constitution and the International Human Rights Law, and an essential duty of the Korean government which seeks to become a leading nation in the field of human rights. The Commission selected ensuring actual and practical protection of fundamental rights to freedom as a strategic goal and set up performance objectives which include i) assuring the personal freedom such as the freedom from arbitrary arrest, detention, and exile, ii) reinforcing protection of rights to freedom including freedom of expression, iii) stronger enforcement of international human rights regulations, and iv) promoting human rights and ICT. Beginning with the ensuring of the personal freedom including the freedom from arbitrary arrest, detention, and exile, the Commission established a regular monitoring system to examine socially controversial human rights violation cases and issued prompt responses in an effort to ensure practical and effective remedies and seek fundamental solutions. The examples include conducting a suo moto investigation on allegations of verbal and physical abuse within the riot police and conscripted police and making a recommendation to ultimately abolish the system of drafting soldiers to serve in the riot police and conscripted police and replace them with the regular police force. The Commission also launched a suo moto investigation on charges of battery, abuse, and a death by gunshot in the army and issued a recommendation that called for a development of fundamental measures by the military to improve conditions and culture within barracks and to better protect human rights in military. The Commission also sought measures to improve human rights conditions of correctional and detention facilities and fundamental rights of personal freedom of people under custody. More specifically, the Commission i) conducted field investigations into correctional facilities of the army and 20 Part I. Introduction