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Our Efforts and Transformation
ii. Proposing 24 important issues relating to
children’s rights, with particular concerns
about:
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The right to education, right to express,
and right to leisure recreation and cultural
activities of children with disabilities
Fair trial in the juvenile justice system, juvenile
detention house and juvenile reformatory
school treatment, and risk exposure teenagers
we recommended for resolving the problems
in handling grievances filed by children and
adolescents in the education system. The IRC
announced 72 concluding observations at the
press conference on November 18, 2022. On the
same day we also invited IRC members to the
NHRC for in-depth opinion exchange.
Further, on November 19, we co-organized
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Friendly grievance mechanisms
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Teaching normalization
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Elimination of all forms of violence
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Civil rights of children from minority groups
children and adolescents, experts, scholars,
Suicide and mental health in children and
adolescents
to the forum. Jakob Doek, Nigel Cantwell, and
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During the review meeting period, IRC members
were pleased to see our efforts in protecting
the rights of children and adolescents since our
establishment. However, they also expressed
their concerns about our capability to fully
promote the rights of children and adolescents
in accordance with the CRC General Comment
No. 2 (2002) and to handle the violations of
the rights of children and adolescents. The
the “2022 Post-Review Forum on the CRC
International Review” with the Youth Rights
Alliance Taiwan and invited representatives of
and civilian groups caring about children rights
Nevena Vuckovic Sahovic, three IRC members,
participating in the meeting exchanged opinions
and shared experiences on issues concerning
the suffrage for 18-year-olds, right to exemption
from campus maltreatment of students, right to
development of school children and adolescents,
and the CRC implementation and monitoring
mechanisms. Their contributions are valuable to
the practice of CRC in Taiwan.
IRC recommended that a well-trained unit with
Additionally, in the Concluding Observations
established within the NHRC to take full charge
the Implementation of CRC, IRC members were
adolescents. Alternatively, the establishment
and right to visitation of juvenile criminals at
children and adolescents should be considered.
of the rights of children and adolescents, it is
members, which include: if a child or adolescent
across ministries and commissions, and between
instead of relocating the child or adolescent
organized the “Seminar on the Treatment Status,
sufficient workforce and budget should be
on the Second Report of the ROC (Taiwan) on
of issues relating to the rights of children and
specifically concerned about the right to reunion
of an independent institution for the rights of
correctional facilities in Taiwan. As the promoter
The following issues also concerned the IRC
also our responsibility to maintain communication
is the victim of a domestic sexual assault,
the public and private sectors. Hence, we
off the premises, whether or not the suspected
Reformation, and Outlook of Juvenile Reformatory
perpetrator can be ordered to move out of the
premises; the effects of climate change on
children rights; the specific contents regarding
the supplement of a special chapter on the rights
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of students to the Educational Fundamental Act
National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report
Facilities” on November 21, 2022. We also invited
representatives from government agencies
(including the Juvenile and Family Department
of the Judicial Yuan, Agency of Corrections of