Part II ＞ Our Efforts and Transformation Additionally, we also collected guidelines, manuals, and cases of reasonable accommodation from home and abroad and issued our principle-based guidelines for the reference of the administrative agencies thus helping them understand the implications of reasonable accommodation and develop guidelines in their fields. In 2022 we extensively consulted with experts, scholars, persons with disabilities groups, and administrative agencies regarding the contents of those guidelines. In the future, we will continue to provide them for the and social welfare administration systems, so as to make recommendations for policy improvement or law amendments to comply with the CRPD. In addition to starting the project, we also invited Professor Chang Li-ching of the National University of Kaohsiung to form an interdisciplinary research team to collect and compare data regarding the legal system of custodial protection of Germany, Japan, the US, the UK, and Taiwan, as well as a preliminary analysis of Taiwan’s judgements for custodial protection. This project was completed in November, 2022. b. Promoting the human rights for offenders with psychosocial disabilities: Oversight of the modified treatment approaches From November 7–11, 2022, some NHRC members accompanied by staff and experts visited Japan to observe the situation there, including location of facilities and resource allocation, and listened to the different perspectives of stakeholders, such as persons with disabilities groups, government representatives, psychiatric facility representatives, scholars and experts. Additionally, the visited organizations also provided relevant cases for our team to exchange views on the challenges and difficulties in both countries. reference of the administrative agencies. In response to the implementation of various new measures, including “custodial protection”, “temporary placements”, and “multiple programs” in 2022, the initiation of the citizen judge system in 2023, and the coming into effect of the 2022 amendment to the Mental Health Act two years later, the treatments for offenders with psychosocial disabilities would be facing change in terms of either the practice of criminal procedure or the actual implementation of treatment measures. In the concluding observations of the second report on CRPD in August 2022, the IRC also expressed various concerns and made recommendations on this topic. To oversee the impacts of these new treatment systems on human rights, we formed the “treatment system for offenders with psychosocial disabilities” project working group based on the resolution made in the January monthly meeting of 2022. It set out to study and analyze the obstacles confronting offenders with psychosocial disabilities in Taiwan’s judicial, correctional, health administration, 48 National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report Considering the strengths and weaknesses of the practice in Japan, our findings and recommendations are as follows: i. Although the competent authorities of Japan have invested considerable resources and man-power in medical treatment and supervision, the treatment still fell short of the requirements of international human rights conventions. Hence, Taiwan should learn from Japan’s experience and seek to strengthen the supporting measures for human rights protection.