the first step by conducting onsite investigations at juvenile halls and the Juvenile Protection Education Institutions, and presented measures for improving the human rights of youth under custody in protective facilities. The Commission also expressed its opinions about the proposed revision of the enforcement ordinance and the enforcement regulations of the Child Welfare Act while detailing response measures. The Commission plans to develop policies aimed at enhancing the human rights of children and youth in facilities, such as children welfare facilities (children group homes) and youth protective facilities, who are comparatively living apart from society. Moreover, the Commission, with the aim of protecting the human rights of people residing in facilities, carried out onsite investigations on human rights conditions in mental health facilities and suo moto investigations in nursing homes of people with severe disabilities and child care institutions, which consequently led to making recommendations to improve human rights protection within the facilities. C. Enhancing the Efficacy of Investigations and Remedial Actions Providing a remedy after conducting an investigation, for the purpose of human rights protection, should rectify human rights violations and discriminative behavior, which in turn should bring about real results in terms of actual improvements in human rights; therefore, improving the efficacy of the remedial action is most important when providing remedies. As people’s awareness of human rights grows, the scope of human rights violations and discriminative behaviors that should be addressed by the NHRCK becomes more complicated and diversified. Such a phenomenon requires the Commission to be forthcoming in its responses and develop more appropriate remedial solutions. Also, planning investigations should be further promoted, and preemptive actions should be taken for those human rights issues which involve human rights violations or discrimination, even if complaints were not filed in relation to those issues. The NHRCK 20 Part I. Introduction