institutional system to guarantee children's rights. For instance, the Student Human Rights Ordinance of Gyeonggi Province, which was formulated in September 2010, specifies the children's rights at school, such as the rights to have their opinions respected and participate in school affairs. The Ordinance also provides for implementation of human rights education and policy monitoring, and counseling and remedies under the Student Human Rights Defender system. At present, some other local governments are also working to create the ordinance to protect children's human rights at school. The Government could share the relevant information and provide supports to ensure that these efforts at the level of local governments are extended further. Ⅱ. Definition of the Child (Article 1) 1. Age of Children with Criminal Responsibility (Article 1 of CRC) Minimum Age for Criminal Responsibility (CRC/C/KOR/3-4, para. 72) 18. The Government amended the Juvenile Act in 2007 to lower the age of the child with criminal responsibility from the existing '12 or above and under 14' to '10 or above and under 14'. The NHRCK pointed out that the statistical data presented by the Government to support its argument, that juvenile crimes were getting more serious and a growing number of juvenile crimes were committed by younger children, were hardly justifiable for the revision of the age of the child with criminal responsibility. The NHRCK also expressed that the revision to lower the age of criminal responsibility would not be compliant with international human rights standards, including the General Comment No. 10 (Children's rights in juvenile justice) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2007, the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice ("the Beijing Rules"). Revision of the Juvenile Act should be reviewed in order to reinstate the minimum age for criminal responsibility to the age 12. Ⅲ. General Principles (Articles 2, 3, 6 and 12) 1. Prohibition of Discrimination (Article 2 of CRC) Discrimination against Migrant Children (CRC/C/KOR/3-4, para. 96) 19. According to the database of the Ministry of Justice, there are 19,659 foreigners in Korea who have stayed in this country for longer than 90 days (from the date of their entry), are registered at the Immigration Office and fall into the schooling age (7~18) as of 2010. The data released by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology shows that, as of 2010, approximately 11,700 migrant children are enrolled in schools, including 1,748 children of migrant workers. Based on these sets of data, we can guess that about 8,000 migrant children do not attend school. Meanwhile, the 2008 Survey on the Rights of Unregistered Migrant Children by the Ministry of Health and 5