professionals by crafting the three-year Human Rights Education Plan for Media Professionals. We organized a workshop for those in charge of human rights education and human rights protection officers at local governments and Offices of Education. On the international front, we concluded an MOU with Canada's EQUITAS and successfully ran the human rights policy development program attended by international trainees from Nepal, Bangladesh, Colombia, etc. We published teaching aids for online human rights education, including Prevention of Disability-Based Discrimination, Understanding Human Rights, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Understanding the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Media and Human Rights, and Human Rights-Conscious Management Practices, and translated and distributed Plan of Action: World Programme for Human Rights Education and Human Rights Education Indicator Framework. The publication of Guidelines on Human Rights Education for Public Officials and educational materials for labor rights also contributed to our expertise. Strengthening Cooperation with Human Rights Institutions of Local Governments We focused on solidifying the foundation for cooperation with the human rights institutions of local governments throughout 2018. Local governments' interest in human rights administration notably rose in parallel with the public's interest in human rights. As a result, notable changes were realized at some local governments in terms of human rights administration. Of particular note, all upper-level local governments are now equipped with human rights ordinances, with Incheon Metropolitan City as the last to join the group. The Commission's awareness of the importance of cooperation with the human rights institutions of local governments continued to rise, and our scope of collaboration with them grew in proportion. To overcome the limits of cooperation projects mainly led by the Commission's Regional Human Rights Offices, we held meetings with public officials in charge of human rights at local governments and collected their opinions, while also creating a website to exchange ideas and share data with them. We staged the Human Rights Advocates' Conference attended by local public officials in charge of human rights administration and human rights activists in December 2018. Through this conference, we focused on promoting understanding between the Commission, local human 22 Introduction