elderly and raising awareness on the rights of the elderly by working with the Senior
Citizen Guardian and monitoring leisure activities and employment status of the elderly. It
also worked hard to prevent diverse human rights infringement in the field of sports. The
Commission approached the issue with well-formulated policies such as recommendations
for guidelines on human rights in sports, executed effective promotion and implementation
of the policies, and offered human rights education on sexuality to student athletes across
the country.
Furthermore, the Commission examined the status of human rights conditions in Korea
by launching 8 surveys to assist development of human rights policies and enhancement of
research capabilities. In particular, the project to develop national human rights index laid
the foundation to design human rights index for public organizations and the survey of
public awareness of civil rights violation and discrimination conducted in commemoration
of the 10th anniversary of the Commission helped to better understand the level of human
right awareness of the public and was integrated into development and execution of various
policies. The Commission was also successful in bringing the public’s attention to privacy
issues by organizing a series of forums attended by relevant organizations, experts, and
businesses to promote rights to privacy. It made prompt responses on excessive profiling of
private information (looting of personal information), intellectual property rights, and
collection of private information by businesses. Its on-site discussions proved to be a good
venue to expand discussion on privacy issues and the latest status and its
recommendations.
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