respectively) with enactment of the Disability Anti-Discrimination Act in 2008 and the
Act on Prohibition of Age Discrimination in 2009, while there were 217 sexual
harassment cases (12.0%).
The Commission organized meetings to discuss prevention of sexual harassment and
violence at universities in order to protect potential victims from sexual violence,
published a casebook on sexual harassment to prevent and remedy sexual harassment
cases, and maintained close and stable cooperation with related organizations.
On the other hand, the Commission needs to make more active efforts to systemize
resolution procedures and logics for decisions, enhance in-depth investigation, monitor
progress after recommendation to ensure their effectiveness, reinforce communication and
cooperation with organizations to implement the recommendations, design measures to
raise the recommendation acceptance rate, and swiftly address cases remaining
unresolved for a long period, in order to offer more effective remedies.
B. Distribution of Human Rights Education and Production and Promotion of
Cultural Contents on Human Rights
The Commission sought to stabilize operation of the Human Rights Education Center
and established a system of supportive services for the education to fulfill its role as a
primary provider of human rights education, which resulted in a total of 1,316 sessions
given to 121,402 persons in 2011.
In particular, it opened and administered the Local Council Member Human Rights
Leadership Academy Course for government officials of Grade 5 or higher, and offered a
human rights sensitivity improvement course which has been in operation since 2010, in
an effort to lay the groundwork to integrate human rights elements into formulation and
implementation of national policies. In addition, it paved the way for training for
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government officials, which is a priority in the 2
Phase Action Plans of the World
Programme for Human Rights Education.
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