The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (Chairperson Lee Sungho) carried out a human rights education program designed to enhance human rights sensitivity of 90 heads of primary and secondary schools and superintendents from 26 to 27 November, 2015.
The NHRCK organized the program in a bid to review human rights issues that could occur at school and to seek measures to prevent and address such issues.
In addition, participants shared experience on diverse human rights issues and opinion on what would be the role of managers to create a human rights friendly school environment.
The UN proposed human rights education for educators as one of main tasks at the 2nd phase of the World Programme for Human Rights Education, and at the 66th UN General Assembly in December 2011, it mandated the state to provide human rights education to civil servants including teachers.
The NHRCK wishes that human rights education program for the leadership at school could serve as an opportunity to promote a human-rights friendly school environment and to create an environment where human rights of all members of school including students and teachers are fully protected.
