Part II ＞ Our Efforts and Transformation and society when they leave the reformatory schools. According to Chairperson Lin Yue-chin of the Youth Rights Alliance Taiwan, the absence of network-based collaboration among ministries and commissions is the main problem in the transition mechanism at the present stage. A robust transition network should be built upon the full integration of youth and family participation, community integration, and transition team formation. According to Chairperson Chen Chu, the NHRC will actively develop cross-sector collaboration. Specifically, the NHRC will endeavor to coordinate the Judicial Yuan, the Executive Yuan, and various government ministries and commissions, and will incorporate social powers to help children change successfully and soothe their scars so as to protect the basic human rights of children of reformatory schools and enable them to return to society smoothly. d. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women We published the Independent Opinion on Taiwan’s Fourth Report on the Implementation of CEDAW (Independent Opinions on the CEDAW) on June 30, 2022 and participated in the international review committee of the Fourth National Report on CEDAW during November 28–29, 2022. rulings, and legislative bills during 2017–2020. From December 2021 to February 2022, apart from holding two expert consultation meetings, seven civic group seminars, and three agency seminars, we also requested 14 government agencies to give explanations and provide statistics. All these efforts were meant to understand whether women’s rights are properly protected by laws and government’s policies and actions, and to know what difficulties government agencies encountered in the implementation of CEDAW. Since the initial report on CEDAW submitted in 2009, Taiwan has gone through the international review of three CEDAW national reports, in which both government and NGOs were deeply involved. Considerable improvement in women’s rights and gender equality has been made over the past four years, such as the first Asian country to legitimate same-sex marriage (2019), the number of women legislators exceeding 40% (2020), the decriminalization of adultery (2020), and the passage of the Stalking and Harassment Prevention Act (2021). That said, we are still aware of the fact that the implementation of CEDAW is far from satisfactory, and that there are some emerging and challenging issues waiting to be confronted. We set all those findings as the foci of the current Independent Opinions on the CEDAW. It was the first time we assessed Taiwan ● the CEDAW and made recommendations of ● non-conforming to CEDAW. We also submitted ● government’s fulfillment of its obligations for improvement for laws, regulations, and policies our independent opinion to the IRC members. ● To prepare the Independent Opinions on the CEDAW, we gathered the relevant government statistics and research reports, meeting minutes, Control Yuan project reports, relevant court 38 National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report ● Incomplete protection of judicial remedies for battered women. Difficulty in achieving work-life balance for women. Inadequate legal protection for the labor rights of live-in foreign workers. Inequalities in the marriage and family rights of women from disadvantaged groups. Unprotected right to sexual health and reproductive health and inequalities in full suffrage for women in remote townships.