A Year of Human Rights Covenants: Great Leap for Taiwan National Human Rights Commission, Taiwan After the IRC issued the concluding observations 2022 and participated in the international review we immediately held a post-sessional forum CRC during November 14–16, 2022. on Taiwan’s second national report on CRPD, with the League for Persons with Disabilities; Eden Social Welfare Foundation; and Taiwan Society for Disability Studies to exchange opinions on topics including (1) the dispute over deinstitutionalization: the feasibility of practicing the CRPD General Comment No. 5 (2017) and the incremental preparation for institutional transition; (2) the requirements to promote accessibility in public and private spheres and General Comment No. 2 (2014); (3) the supported decision-making (SDM) for neurocognitive disorder / development of right to freedom of expression, legal behavior and other topics; and (4) implementation and oversight mechanism of CRPD: exploration of the role of the government and the public and General Comment No. 7 (2018). We invited three IRC experts of the CRPD national report to the forum as objective third parties to share the experience of their own countries and exchange opinions with people with disabilities, group representatives, experts, and scholars in Taiwan. To oversee the implementation, we would continue to track the progress of the executive action plans based on the concluding observations of international reviews. We would propose specific recommendations and collaboration, establish an oversight framework based on the concluding observations as quickly as possible and ensure the full participation of the civil society groups, particularly persons with disabilities and the organizations representing them. c. Convention on the Rights of Children We published the Independent Opinion on the Second National Report on the CRC (Independent Opinions on the CRC) on April 1, committee of the Second National Report on It was the first time we assessed Taiwan’s fulfillment of its obligations for the CRC and made recommendations of improvement for legislation and policies non-conforming to the CRC. We also submitted our independent opinion to the IRC members. In order to draw up our Independent Opinions on the CRC, we made reference to the Concluding Observations on the First Report of the ROC/ Taiwan on the Implementation of CRC (2017) and the Second CRC National Report (2021). Moreover, starting from September 2021, we widely invited children, adolescents, experts and academics of children rights, and agency representatives to participate in meetings organized by us across Taiwan. The topics discussed were child labor, rights of persons with disabilities, student rights, rights of minority groups, and children’s digital rights. First-hand opinions from children, adolescents, and civic groups were therefore collected. Based on efforts mentioned and Control Yuan’s reports on the human rights of children and adolescents in the past decade, we focused on analyzing and understanding of current challenges for the CRC and possible difficulties embedded in the system. The main points of our Independent Opinions on the CRC are as follows: i. Marking out by special reports the importance of the following three major topics regarding COVID-19 pandemic and newly emergent children’s rights: ● Children’s rights under COVID-19 pandemic ● Children’s digital rights ● Alternative care for children National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report 35