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NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA ACT
CHAPTER Ⅳ INVESTIGATION OF VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND REMEDY THEREFOR
조문단위인쇄
 Article 30 (Matters Subject to Investigation of Commission)
(1) In any case falling under the following subparagraphs, the person who suffers from violations of human rights (hereinafter referred to as a “sufferer”) or any other person or organization that comes to know such violations, may file a petition to the Commission:
1. In case such human rights as guaranteed in Articles 10 through 22 of the Constitution are violated by the performance of duties (excluding the legislation of the National Assembly and the trial of a court or the Constitutional Court) of state organs, local govern ments or confinement or caring facilities; or
2. In case there exists a discriminatory act of any violation of the right of equality by a juristic person, organization or private individual.
(2) The term “discriminatory act of violating the right of equality” means any of the following acts of giving unreasonable discrimination on the ground of sex, religion, disability, age, social status, region of origin, state of origin, nation of origin, physical condition such as features, whether or not to be married, pregnancy or delivery, family surroundings, race, skin color, thought or political opinion, record of any crime the effect of the punishment of which has been extinguished, sexual inclination, or history of diseases: Provided, That if the favorable treatment of particular persons (including groups of particular persons; hereinafter the same shall apply) is excluded from the scope of discriminatory acts by any other Act, such favorable treatment shall not be deemed to be a discriminatory act:
1. Any act of favorably treating, excluding, discriminating against or unfavorably treating a particular person in employment (including recruitment, appointment, training, posting, promotion, payment of wages and any other money or commodity, financing, age limit, retirement, dismissal, etc.);
2. Any act of favorably treating, excluding, discriminating against or unfavorably treating a particular person in the supply or use of goods, services, transportation, commercial facilities, land and residential facilities; and
3. Any act of favorably treating, excluding, discriminating against or unfavorably treating a particular person in the use of educational facilities or vocational training institutions.
(3) Even if any petition under paragraph (1) is not filed, the Commission may, ex officio, initiate an investigation when it deems that there exists a reasonable ground for believing that human rights have been violated and that such violation is serious.
(4) Necessary matters concerning the procedures and methods of a petition under paragraph (1) shall be prescribed by rule of the Commission.