[Title Page] 1
Symbol of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea 2
Foreword / Lee Sung-ho 4
Contents 6
Part I. Introduction 10
Chapter 1. Overview of the Commission 12
Chapter 2. Domestic and International Environment 15
Chapter 3. Basic Directions and Key Achievements 17
Chapter 4. Evaluation and Challenges 28
Part II. Commission's Major Activities 30
Chapter 1. Improvement of Human Rights-related Statutes, Institutions, Policies, and Practices 32
Section 1. Overview 32
Section 2. Policy Recommendations and Expression of Opinions 33
Section 3. Surveys of Human Rights Conditions and Human Rights Advocacy 43
Section 4. Special Programme: Increased Activities to Improve North Korean Human Rights 48
Chapter 2. Investigations and Remedies 53
Section 1. Overview 53
Section 2. Investigations and Remedies: Human Rights Abuses 56
Section 3. Investigations and Remedies: Discriminatory Acts 70
Section 4. Human Rights Counselling and Complaints 80
Chapter 3. Education and Promotional Activities for Shaping Favorable Human Rights Conditions 84
Section 1. Overview 84
Section 2. Key Progress 86
Chapter 4. Exchanges and Cooperation in Korea and Abroad 96
Section 1. Overview 96
Section 2. Key Progress 99
Chapter 5. Human Rights Offices 107
Appendices 110
1. List of NHRCK Commissioners and Senior Executive Officers 112
2. The 4th Action Plan for the Promotion of Human Rights 117
Copyright 118
[Table 2-1-1] Statistics of recommendations or opinions on related statutes and policies 33
[Table 2-2-1] Human rights abuse complaints filed against entities in the last five years 56
[Table 2-2-2] Human rights abuse complaints handled in the last five years 57
[Table 2-2-3] Discrimination complaints received in the last five years 71
[Table 2-2-4] Complaints received by reason of discrimination in the last five years 72
[Table 2-2-5] Discrimination complaints handled in the last five years 73
[Table 2-2-6] Discrimination complaints by reason and by resolution in 2016 74
[Table 2-2-7] Complaints, counselling, civil petitions, and inquiries in the last five years 80
[Table 2-2-8] Counselling by type in the last five years 81
[Table 2-2-9] Complaints by type in the last five years 82
[Table 2-2-10] Face-to-face complaints applied for and handled in the last five years 83
[Table 2-2-11] Complaints received and handled by channel in the last five years 83
[Table 2-3-1] Human rights education by area 87
[Table 2-3-2] Human rights education statistics in the last five years 91
[Table 2-3-3] Human Rights Library collections 93
[Table 2-5-1] Location and jurisdiction of Human Rights Offices 107
[Table 2-5-2] Complaints and human rights education by Human Rights Office in 2016 108