2.7 Monitoring human rights safeguards for migrant workers 1. Reason for selection 1) The NHRC released the Special Report on Foreign Fishers’ Human Rights in 2021. The report contained concrete policy recommendations to improve foreign fishers’ human rights in four major areas—promoting equal work conditions, the registration of flags of convenience, strengthening management of agencies for international fishers, and cracking down on forced labor. In 2022, the NHRC also pushed the competent authority to propose the Fisheries and Human Rights Action Plan and to amend the relevant regulations. The NHRC will continue to follow up on these initiatives. 2) In Points 42 and 43 of the concluding observations on Taiwan’s Third National Report on the Two Covenants, the IRC acknowledged that the government has taken some steps towards protecting migrant domestic workers but pointed out that these improvements fall far short of ensuring equal treatment of migrant and local domestic workers. In Points 55 and 56 of the concluding observations on Taiwan’s Fourth National Report on CEDAW, the IRC recommended that the government should propose legislation to implement the International Labour Organization’s Convention No. 189 (ILO-C189: Domestic Workers Convention) in Taiwan in order to provide a legal basis for safeguarding migrant domestic workers. The IRC also suggested that the government take immediate action to minimize the pay gap between migrant domestic workers and 43