National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2019 In the area of criminal justice, the Commission expressed an opinion regarding the forcible Part 1 and to protect and promote the rights of social minorities. enforcement of the ruling that victims of the Committee for the Rebuilding of the People's that the state imposing economic pain on victims of state violence is not indicative of a state that regrets its past wrongdoings, the Commission expressed an opinion to the President that effective remedies should be examined. Regarding the court-appointed counsel program that the Ministry of Justice is trying to introduce, the Commission expressed the opinion that, in order to guarantee defendants the universal right to defense, it would be desirable to apply the program to all arrested defendants, and to all minors and social minorities, regardless of whether they are arrested or not. In the area of migrant rights, the Commission conducted an ex officio investigation into the death of a migrant worker during crackdown, an incident that occurred at the end of 2018. It recommended the Ministry of Justice to issue disciplinary actions against those who are held accountable for the incident and to develop a plan to prevent a recurrence of similar incidents in the future. In the area of children’s rights, the Commission examined the methods and procedures with which schools are handling school violence to understand human rights violations that occur in that process and institutional improvements that are necessary to prevent them, and to promote the right to education without discrimination. As a preventative measure, the Commission also conducted on-site inspections of institutional care facilities where children over the age of 18 move out to live on their own. It also expressed opinion, monitored, and actively responded to the consideration by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child of the fifth and sixth periodic report of the Republic of Korea. The Commission also had in-depth discussions and reviews of various other issues such as human rights violations in correctional facilities, personal information rights, and bullying in the workplace, contributing to protecting the rights of social minorities and victims. As the overarching organization charged with redressing discrimination, the Commission took several remedial decisions on discrimination cases. With forms of employment becoming more diverse, it addressed discrimination in wages and other treatments based on different employment status and types of occupation. It also confirmed that denying a person access to goods or services 25 Introduction Revolutionary Party incident should return a portion of state compensation money. Concluding