제4차 국가인권정책기본계획 수립을 위한 검토

Abstract

It has been more than a year since the end of the 3rd National Action Plan for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (NAP), which had its five-year implementation period from 2018 to 2022, but the 4th NAP has not yet been established. Originally, the 4th NAP should have been established as a five-year plan from 2023 to 2027, but since it is already 2024, it should be established as a five-year plan from 2024 to 2028. The NAP, which was initially established in 2007, had a one-year gap in 2016 when the 2nd NAP was ended, but at that time, there were special circumstances in which the presidential election was held due to the impeachment of the president of Park Geun Hye. And it is very unusual that the establishment of the government’s basic policy plan has been delayed for more than a year without such special circumstances.
 In July 2022, the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) has already adopted the recommended draft for the 4th NAP and recommended the President to establish the 4th NAP. Of course, the Ministry of Justice, which is in charge of establishing the NAP within the government, was not just sitting idle. The evaluation of implementation the 3rd NAP had been conducted through external research services from April to August 2022, and a public hearing was held in August 2023 to listen to the opinions of experts in related human rights fields while presenting the draft of the 4th NAP. However, since this public hearing, the establishment process of the 4th NAP has been continuously delayed for nearly seven months.
 I hope that the 4th NAP, which is a government’s blueprint for human rights policy of the Republic of Korea over the next five years, will be established without further delay, and I will examine the composition and individual tasks of the 4th NAP, focusing on the tasks for the civil and political rights.