repeated recommendations for the legislation of the comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Act, including the one included in its recommendations for the 3rd NAP. Issue 3: OP-ICESCR Current status 11. In October 2012, the Human Rights Council, upon the completion of the 2nd Universal Periodic Review (UPR) over the ROK, recommended the Government to ratify the OP-ICESCR. The Government, at that time, replied that it “is currently reviewing the need for ratification and the following effects at the national level” (HRC/22/10/Add.1, Para. 7) and, later in the 2nd NAP (2012-2016), revealed its plan to ratify the OP-ICESCR, but has not done it yet. Question suggested 12. The Government announced, in the 2nd NAP of its own drafting and in its views regarding the 2nd UPR recommendations, that it planned to review the need to ratify the OP-ICESCR. Please provide specific outcomes of the review (fact-finding surveys, experts’ advice and other specific documents of review) and future plan in this regard. Issue 4: Employment of Women and Young People Current status 13. The current Government set, as one of its priorities for national administration, ‘the road map for 70% employment rate’, which includes a wide range of measures, such as different supportive programmes to help women continue their work career in different life courses, under the goal of increasing female employment rate by 10%, but it has been pointed out that these measures are not effective enough. Since the current Government was inaugurated in 2013, female employment rate grew by a mere 2.3%p as in 2016 and it still remained much lower than male employment rate (by about 20%p). In terms of female employment rate as in 2015, the ROK ranked only the 29th among the then 34 member states of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Trends in employment rate by gender (15~64 years of age) since 2011 (Unit: %) Men Women 2011 74.5 53.1 2012 74.9 53.5 2013 74.9 53.9 2014 75.7 54.9 2015 75.7 55.7 2016. 11. 75.8 56.2 (Source: Statistics Korea, Survey of Economically Active Population (SEAP) 2016) 14. According to the analysis on the proportion of non-regular work which is one of the indicators for the assessment of the general job quality in a society, the gap between men and women in the proportion of non-regular work began to decrease since 2011 but rebounded to the level of 2012 in the first half of 2016. 4 / 25