Act so that human rights education can be implemented strategically, and laid an
institutional foundation for human rights education by inserting articles into laws and
ordinances that would make human rights education mandatory. The bill called the
Human Rights Education Act was unfortunately automatically tossed out with the
termination of the 18th National Assembly, but the NHRCK is committed to doing its
utmost to legislate the bill in the 19th National Assembly.
The NHRCK strengthened a cooperative network with related organizations by operating
the Human Rights Education Committee, the Human Rights Education Council for Schools,
and the Human Rights Education Council for the Army, as well as by establishing and
operating the Human Rights Education Council for Homeless People. Also, the
Commission developed a long-term plan for human rights education for the period of
2013 to 2022 to clarify its goals in terms of human rights education, and recommended a
comprehensive policy that would form a human rights-friendly culture in the schools.
For the sake of strengthening and expanding human rights education, the Commission
established a regular education system by upgrading online human rights education,
expanded the service to include more people and laid a foundation for human rights
education in elementary and secondary schools as well as universities. Also, the
Commission, with the aim of facilitating human rights education by strengthening ties
with the mechanism of international human rights education, reviewed the
implementation stage of the 2nd phase of the World Programme for Human Rights
Education in Korea and submitted pertinent materials to the United Nations.
The NHRCK has developed human rights educational content to standardize human
rights education across different areas. To standardize it, the Commission set up a content
development system involving, for example, the creation of a manual about the
development of the content of human rights education. The Commission also developed
educational material related to the human rights of homeless people, the human rights in a
multicultural society, standardized lecture programs related to the human rights of the
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