Introduction work, climate crisis, business and human rights, gender violence, gender minorities, family diversity, persons with disabilities, military, migration, and gender gap), shared the resulting plans with human rights groups and civil society groups, and received their feedback. Part of the Moon Jae-in Administration’s Top 100 State Tasks, legislation of a Framework Act on Human Rights was presented as a critical task for the establishment of human rights safeguards. In light of this, the Commission prepared a proposed Framework Act on Human Rights Policy Part 1 Introduction Supporting legislation of Framework Act on Human Rights Policy together with the Ministry of Justice and submitted it to the National Assembly on December 30. Generating and analyzing national human rights statistics statistics from existing state-approved data and administration data, and by conducting national human rights surveys. This effort helped build national human rights statistics data that would later serve as the basis for developing indicators (index). 7) Increasing NHRCK expertise and independence In light of internal changes within the Commission and the rapidly changing human rights landscape in the Korean society over the past 20 years since its establishment, the Commission examined the role it is expected to play with regards contemporary human rights issues and sought new ways to act as the nation’s leading human rights organization, including strengthening cooperation with local governments and the civil society, improving human rights education, and fostering human rights experts. To strengthen its role and functions, a legislative change to the NHRCK Act was necessary. The proposed partial amendment to the NHRCK Act passed by the Plenary Committee on February 22 anticipates an increased role for the Commission. Specifically, it provides that a nomination committee be established to appoint commissioners; its independence be strengthened by having all organization-related matters be determined based on internal rules and specifying 29 Part 3 Appendices Working on amendment of the ‘National Human Rights Commission of Korea Act’ Part 2 Key NHRCK Activities From 2019, the Commission built human rights statistics by drawing human rights-related

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