National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2021 4) Facilitating the social participation of disabled people with disabilities from a rights perspective With regards the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the Commission monitored the 14th session of the Conference of State Parties to the CRPD to look for human rights tasks for people with disabilities and the possibility of applying the convention in Korea. It also tracked the status of ratification of the Optional Protocol to CRPD and discussed what role it can play after ratification, including review in response to an inquiry regarding ratification of the Optional Protocol to CRPD, debate for effective guarantee of the Optional Protocol to Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and discussions on ways to support the Optional Protocol after ratification. To combat discrimination and prejudice against people with mental disabilities, the Commission organized a task force to monitor hate speech and discrimination-inducing speech against people with disabilities in policy press releases and the press. It examined how the human rights conditions facing people with mental disabilities have changed since its publication of the National Report on People with Mental Disabilities in 2009, while making relevant policy recommendations in the 2nd Report on Human Rights of People with Mental Disabilities and contributing to furthering their rights and helping them participate in the society. The Commission carried out research from various angles, including a study on legitimate convenience for people with disabilities, and monitored how accessible electronic payment services are for blind people and examined how they can be enhanced. It also examined the legitimate convenience criteria, which is the reference for determining petitions on discrimination against people with disabilities, while also preparing to establish petition determination criteria. To safeguard the rights of people who have difficulties claiming their rights and raise public interest, the Commission conducted a deliberate survey of the human rights conditions facing disabled children in residential facilities for the disabled, a survey of the conditions of homes designed for the disabled to live an autonomous life, and made ex -officio investigations and onsite inspections to residential facilities for the mentally disabled. 18