school. Efforts should be made to assess the social status of teenage single mothers, and
practical and effective measures should be implemented to support them to continue their
education, ensuring the teenage single mothers' right to education, through providing
relevant laws and guidelines. Those recommendations were accepted by the relevant
authorities for implementation.
24) Opinion on the Partial Amendment to the Disability Discrimination Act
In January 2010, the Commission delivered its opinion on the partial amendment to the
Disability Discrimination Act, which was proposed by a member of the National
Assembly, to the Minister for Health and Welfare, regarding the lack of clarity of contents
and agents responsible for monitoring. The Commission expressed its view that it should
allow the National Human Rights Commission of Korea to monitor the implementation of
the Disability Discrimination Act and that to this end it was desirable to establish a
monitoring center. The Commission also expressed its opinion that it was desirable to
modify the clauses on monitoring related to non-specified penalties and procedures in
order to prevent confusion.
25) Opinion on the Full Amendment to the Mental Health Act
The Ministry of Health and Welfare drew up a bill on the full amendment to the Mental
Health Act by reflecting a considerable part of key implementation tasks of the National
Report on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities
prepared by the Commission for policy recommendation on October 26, 2009. The
Ministry requested the Commission to review the full amendment bill for opinions on
December 21, 2009.
In response, the Commission expressed eight opinions on the full amendment bill on
January 14, which included deleting the concept of "persons with mental illness with low
functioning" to allow the Mental Health Review Committee to determine the vocational
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