qualifications and licenses by people with mental disabilities, and issuing the Chairperson's
We recommended that a petitionee who was found to have taken adverse personnel actions
against a testifier in a petitioned incident of human rights violation at a facility for persons with
disabilities to stop the act of human rights violation and requested legal aid from Korea Legal
Aid Corporation as an emergency remedial measure on behalf of the petitioner.
We conducted ex officio investigations on two facilities for persons with disabilities that
embezzled benefits and subsidies for their residents and forced them into labor. We also
requested the prosecution's investigation of and recommended that local governments take
administrative measures against these facilities.
3) Building Sustainable Human Rights Governance
Institutionalizing and Specializing Human Rights Education
We recommended that the Ministry of Education amend the Early Childhood Education
Act to mandate that preschool teachers take human rights education training and delivered our
opinion to the Ministry of Health and Welfare on the reinforcement of criteria for qualifications
of human rights education lecturers and for the designation of human rights education
institutions specified in the Enforcement Rules of the Welfare of Older Persons Act. We pushed
ahead with the enactment of the Human Rights Education Support Act and the installation of the
Human Rights Training Institute in close cooperation with the National Assembly and pertinent
ministries.
We identified areas of improvements for elementary, middle, and high school textbooks by
analyzing them from the perspective of human rights and monitored the current status of human
rights education at national institutions and local governments to define the challenges to be
overcome regarding the institutionalization of human rights education for public officials.
We launched the Council for Education on the Human Rights of the Disabled, Human Rights
Education and Research-Centered University Council, and Council for Education on the Human
Rights of Military Personnel to promote human rights education through collaboration with
experts of different fields and provided momentum for the human rights education of media
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statement on the tragedy of Sejong Hospital in Miryang.