NHRC Published the First Reference Books in the Series Materials for Implementing the International Human Rights Conventions
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) published Materials for Implementing the International Human Rights Conventions (the Material Series), which include all kinds of recommendations within 3,200 pages related to implementation of the six major UN international human rights conventions.
The Material Series consists of six volumes about major UN human rights conventions as follows: the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the first volume); the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (the second volume); the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (the third volume); the Convention on the Rights of the Child (the forth volume); the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (the fifth volume); Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Punishment Treatment of Punishment (the sixth volume). The Material Series also contains material from: individual international conventions, initial reports on individual conventions, NGOs" counter reports, concluding observations of the UN, summary records, reports of Special Rapporteurs and working-level reports.
The NHRC is scheduled to distribute the Material Series to domestic human rights NGOs, the concerned government agencies, and universities which have human rights courses. Moreover, in February, the NHRC will post the entire contents of the Material Series on the NHRC web-site to promote public awareness of human rights. In addition, during the first half of 2003, the NHRC plans to translate the English into Korean and post them on the web-site.
These Material Series, which examines implementation procedures of UN human rights conventions and summarizes the points of recommendations by various human rights committees under the UN, will serve as a fundamental resource for human rights researchers in Korea.
Above all, the publication of the Material Series is meaningful in that the series fulfills the UN"s recommendation to give wider accessibility of the Concluding Observations and Summary Records of the UN in Korea."
