Human Rights Commission: "Workplace Athletes Suffer Violence and Privacy Control"... Recommends Human Rights Protection Policies to Related Agencies

[Asia Economy Reporter Donghoon Jeong] The National Human Rights Commission has recommended that related agencies develop policy improvement measures to protect and promote the human rights of workplace sports team athletes.

According to the results of the "Workplace Sports Team Athletes' Human Rights Situation Survey" conducted by the Human Rights Commission last year, workplace sports team athletes were highly likely to be exposed to inhumane situations, including routine sexual violence and abuse, as well as excessive control over their private lives despite being adults.

In particular, some athletes were found to be in unfair contract environments where working conditions were unilaterally decided by coaches. Accordingly, the Human Rights Commission judged that it is necessary to improve practices that promote or condone human rights violations within workplace sports teams and to enhance policies to protect and promote athletes' human rights, and proposed improvement measures based on the survey results.

To the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Commission recommended ▲establishing policies and implementation plans to protect workplace sports team athletes from human rights violations such as violence and sexual violence ▲developing measures to ensure that human rights violation prevention education and violence prevention education, including sexual violence, under the National Sports Promotion Act are effectively conducted on the ground ▲formulating maternal protection policies to eliminate gender discrimination against female athletes in workplace sports teams and guarantee reproductive rights ▲seeking institutional measures to achieve gender balance among sports coaches in various workplace sports team disciplines ▲and recommended identifying the actual status of labor contracts of workplace sports team athletes and introducing a standard labor contract.

To the Minister of Gender Equality and Family, the Commission recommended establishing maternal protection policies in the sports sector to eliminate gender discrimination against female athletes and guarantee reproductive rights.

To the heads of metropolitan and basic local governments operating workplace sports teams, presidents of city and provincial sports councils, presidents of city, county, and district sports councils, heads of public institutions, and heads of public organizations, the Commission recommended ▲phasing out controlled dormitories for workplace sports teams in the mid to long term and preparing institutional improvement measures accordingly ▲and in the short term, if dormitories must be operated, enacting and implementing the "Workplace Sports Team Dormitory Operation Management Guidelines," revising related ordinances and regulations to improve the human rights environment of dormitories, and securing budgets.

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