Promote Children's Rights and Independent Monitoring Mechanism
29. The NHRC is pleased that the Government has formed the the Advisory
Committee on the Drafting of the National Human Rights Action Plan
to develop the National Human Rights Action Plan. The Commission
will continue to track the status of implementation.
30. The NHRC notes that members of the international review committees
attach great importance to an independent national human rights
institution and expect it to have an independent mandate to oversee the
implementation of human rights (§26 of the Second Report and §15 of
the Concluding Observations on the Initial Report). The NHRC was
established in August 2020 with diverse representation and a continuing
interest in promoting the implementation of the CRC in Taiwan.
31. Recommendations:
(1) In the draft National Human Rights Action Plan, the section on
equality and non-discrimination for children should emphasize
on issues faced by children with disabilities. This includes
consultation with children with disabilities and related personnel,
and the development of educational materials designed with
reasonable accommodations for use by teachers and other sectors
in education and training, in order to gradually raise public
awareness of children with disabilities, and to systematically
collect the opinions of these children.
(2) Regarding the independent children's rights monitoring
mechanism, it is recommended that the Government should make
reference to the Act to Implement CRPD and amend the
Implementation Act of the CRC as soon as possible to specify the
substance of the monitoring mechanism.
Budget for Children
32. The allocation of public resources to the national budget for children is
inadequate, and the budget for "development of children" is not given
priority (§§21-22 of the Second Report, and Attachments 1-2; §18 of
the Concluding Observations on the Initial Report).
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