Assistance Project for Migrant Workers and Other Vulnerable Groups since 2005, the program limits eligibility to children whose parents can provide documented work history. Thus children whose parents either have no work history or unable to provide document in fear of having to expose their identities are left out of the program’s benefit. Accordingly, the Commission recommended the Minister of Health and Welfare to implement measures to grant undocumented migrant children better access to medical services including expanding the scope of eligibility, increasing the number of participating medical facilities, securing stable flow of budget, and revising application regulations such as the Medical Care Assistance Act and the National Basic Living Security Act to grant eligibility for the National Medical Insurance. (December 12, 2011) The Commission also recommended the Minister of Justice to implement a measure to promote the 2010 initiative of the Ministry of Justice that excludes medical care providers from ‘responsibility of government officers to report undocumented foreigners’ stipulated by the Immigration Control Act. The Commission recommended the Ministry of Justice in 2010 to grant undocumented migrant children the right to education, and the Ministry responded by saying that they would recognize doctors of public health centers, the Commission’s officials, and labors supervisors of the Ministry of Employment and Labor in addition to education officials such as teachers as a group of government officials exempted from the reporting responsibility. But the Commission further recommended the Ministry to notify such decisions more effectively to staff of public medical institutions since there seems lack of awareness and promotion. 7) Establishment and Recommendation: Guidelines on Human Rights of Migrants The Commission established the Guidelines on Human Rights of Migrants to guide immigration policies of the government in greater reflection of human rights. Then the Commission recommended it to 10 government agencies including the Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Justice. (December 29, 2011) With a dramatic increase in migrant workers and married migrant women whose Chapter 3. Investigations and Remedies: Civil Rights Violations 93

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