Foreword
“Amid a dynamically changing
human rights environment
and global disaster, we will
remain committed to faithfully
safeguarding the dignity, equality,
and freedom of all.”
In 2020, we came through some challenging times amid the risks of COVID-19, not really knowing when
it would all end. During those times, the pandemic clearly revealed the day-to-day human rights issues. The
society became aware learned from the crisis that anyone can become a target of hate and discrimination,
that it is to the best interest of our communities to ensure that no one is left behind in the human rights
safeguard protection mechanism, and that achieving equality for all is a calling of our time.
The Commission made policy recommendations and announced statements to prevent social stigma
caused by public health authorities' disclosure of travel histories of confirmed COVID-19 patients and to
protect individual privacy in the disclosure of travel histories of confirmed COVID-19 patients by the public
health authorities. In a preemptive effort to tackle human rights issues that may arise during pandemic
response, it translated and distributed international human rights standards related to COVID-19 measures.
It expressed opinion to the National Assembly on the need for an equality law to address hate and
discrimination in the society and to guarantee effective rights to equality. It committed itself to promoting
self-regulatory actions to hate speech through the Joint Declaration on Countering Hate Speech and
the Declaration for Media Action to Counter Hate Speech, which led to a variety of educational and
promotional activities.
The Commission made recommendations to the President, urging calling for a shift from the win-at-allcosts paradigm in sports. fundamental changes and a shift in the winning paradigm of sports. It made some
key decisions of significant implications, including opinion expressed to the Chairman of the National
Assembly that it would be desirable to decriminalize abortion and that the provisions related to persons with
obligation for financial support be abolished from the National Basic Living Security Act.