that may infringe students’ rights, in an effort to build foundation for human
rights-friendly school education and culture and to advance rights of students.
The Commission conducted a survey on elementary and secondary education
curriculum and human rights education to identify progress and current status of human
rights education at school, expecting the result to be an important basis in setting the
future direction of human rights education at school. It worked actively and jointly with
competent authorities to advance students’ rights by supporting local education authorities
for their formulation of the Human Rights Ordinance for Students and gathering opinions
on the Charter of Rights to Education.
It also recommended to avoid producing and broadcasting videos featuring children
waiting to be adopted with an aim to advance rights of children and youth and promote
human rights-oriented culture, and offered in-depth human rights education courses to
teachers of regional childcare centers jointly with the Korean Association of Community
Child Center, contributing to raising awareness on children’s rights.
Following the Policy Recommendation on Protecting and Advancing Rights of Student
Athletes in 2007 and the Sports Human Rights Guidelines in 2010, the Commission
organized on-site briefings and hearings in 2011 to facilitate acceptance and
implementation of the guidelines in the sport community and contributed to protecting
and advancing sports in the field of sports as well.
The Commission participated in working group meetings and presented its opinions
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including Information Note on its review of the 3 and 4 government reports submitted
to the working group prior to regular sessions of the Committee on the Rights of the
Child. It also provided a separate set of documents prior to deliberation to help reaching a
final conclusion on advancing children’s rights in Korea. The activities of the
Commission have been incorporated in the final conclusion of the Committee on the
Rights of the Child, contributing to taking the level of compliance with international
human rights standards in Korea to the next level.
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Part I. Introduction