In 2021, the NHRC began to publish annual strategic plans
detailing its undertakings to safeguard and promote human rights
in realization of Article 2 of the Organic Act.
The NHRC works to promote human rights in accordance
with the Organic Act and the guidelines for national human rights
institutions provided in General Comment No. 10 on the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Because the strategic plan is a crucial document to be submitted
for accreditation, developed countries that value human rights all
formulate medium-term strategic plans or plans for the next three
to four years for their national human rights institution, which
determine the direction of each country’s human rights initiatives
and outline human rights issues to be addressed over the near
future. Compared to the national human rights institutions of those
countries, the NHRC is understaffed and underfunded. In order to
deal with the most pressing human rights issues under the
constraint of limited resources, the NHRC has made reference to
medium-term strategic plans or 3- or 4-year human rights topics
of concern reports, the contents and key human rights issues
outlined in the Executive Yuan’s National Human Rights Action
Plan (2022-2024), key issues derived from the opinions of and
feedback from civic organizations, topics of concern delineated in
independent evaluation reports, and issues discussed in the
concluding observations on international covenants. This plan,
which contains the priority human rights topics the Commission
chooses to focus on in the next three to four years, the key
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