Key NHRCK Activities be available, otherwise. Given the substantial health and safety risks posed by sporting events held outdoors under severely hot weather conditions on elementary students, the Commission expressed opinion to the relevant sports associations and institutions that the events should be rescheduled or measures to cope with severely hot weather conditions should be budgeted for. In relation to death of a member of the national team, it expressed opinion to the relevant institutions that regulations should be established and enforced to prevent injuries and protect athletes. ■ Recommendations for policy improvements through ex officio investigations In 2019, the Commission had launched an ex officio investigation into invisible violence and sexual violence in sports and what causes such practices to be sustained. It studied cases, rules and structural and operational flaws in the protection system, which prevent it from functioning properly. Part 2 regulations across the sports community, examined the protection mechanism in place, and found On July 6, the Commission made recommendations to the President that violence and sexual to be investigated separately and distinctly from other corruption cases, and for a system and institutional overhaul to protect victims. Concluding that the current system is largely insufficient to restore the rights of students and coaching staff who were objects of violence or sexual violence, protect victims, and prevent harm from being done in the future, the Commission recommended the Minister of Education, the Minister of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, and the presidents of two sports associations that there be an overhaul of the system. The Executive Office of the President echoed the Commission’s recommendations and committed itself to a pan-governmental effort. The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the Ministry of Education revised the Enforcement Decree of the National Sports Promotion Act and the Enforcement Decree of the School Physical Education Promotion Act so that victims can be protected and stricter disciplinary actions be enforced upon offenders. The two sports associations also announced plans to develop relevant regulations. Based on factual surveys and investigations of petitions filed in 2019, the Commission had found that, of the various examples of human rights violations in student sports clubs, some cases do not clearly fall under the category of violence (physical or verbal) but are, nonetheless, 65 Key NHRCK Activities violence in sports is a matter of fundamental paradigm change, highlighting the need for incidents