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
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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