Foreword “Amid a dynamically changing human rights environment and global disaster, we will remain committed to faithfully safeguarding the dignity, equality, and freedom of all.” In 2020, we came through some challenging times amid the risks of COVID-19, not really knowing when it would all end. During those times, the pandemic clearly revealed the day-to-day human rights issues. The society became aware learned from the crisis that anyone can become a target of hate and discrimination, that it is to the best interest of our communities to ensure that no one is left behind in the human rights safeguard protection mechanism, and that achieving equality for all is a calling of our time. The Commission made policy recommendations and announced statements to prevent social stigma caused by public health authorities' disclosure of travel histories of confirmed COVID-19 patients and to protect individual privacy in the disclosure of travel histories of confirmed COVID-19 patients by the public health authorities. In a preemptive effort to tackle human rights issues that may arise during pandemic response, it translated and distributed international human rights standards related to COVID-19 measures. It expressed opinion to the National Assembly on the need for an equality law to address hate and discrimination in the society and to guarantee effective rights to equality. It committed itself to promoting self-regulatory actions to hate speech through the Joint Declaration on Countering Hate Speech and the Declaration for Media Action to Counter Hate Speech, which led to a variety of educational and promotional activities. The Commission made recommendations to the President, urging calling for a shift from the win-at-allcosts paradigm in sports. fundamental changes and a shift in the winning paradigm of sports. It made some key decisions of significant implications, including opinion expressed to the Chairman of the National Assembly that it would be desirable to decriminalize abortion and that the provisions related to persons with obligation for financial support be abolished from the National Basic Living Security Act.

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