The National Human Rights Commission of Korea(NHRCK) recommended the Universal Periodic Review(UPR) to ask the Korean Government to address the problems of low fertility and the aging population and to protect the workers in the special forms of employment.
NHRCK unveiled on April 5 that it has submitted a report for a country review by the Universal Periodic Review(UPR) on the human rights situation and actions taken for the improvement in Korea scheduled in November this year.
NHRCK recommended the UPR to ask the Korean Government that low fertility should be understood from the perspective of the social structure rather than women or individuals themselves, and holistic approaches should be taken to tackle the problems of women career discontinuity, shortage of public childcare facilities and low use of paternity leave.
Concerning the labor related issues, NHRCK recommended for the improvement of human rights situation in Korea; △reduced ratio of minimum wage workers, △resolution of social conflict caused by the widely used indirect, dispatched and contingent forms of employment, △guaranteeing basic labor rights for the workers in the public sector and special forms of employment, and △coverage expansion of the industrial accident compensation insurance.
reported by Kim Hak-tae
translated by Kim Sung-jin