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(e.g., low-income family) will receive a living
allowance in accordance with Article 2 of the
“Regulations of living assistance for persons with
disabilities”. Yet when a person with disabilities
is serving his term, this living allowance will
be suspended in accordance with Article 4 of
the same Regulations. Hence, no ameliorating
measures will be implemented on inmates with
disabilities who can handle the activities of daily
living in the prison. Based on this rule, however,
those who cannot work at the prison’s factory
due to severe physical disabilities will suffer
much difficulty in their daily lives. Based on the
MOJ statistics, we found 28 inmates suffering
from this situation in our investigation.
“special project on the rights and interests of
Although the suspension of living allowance
for persons with disabilities under specific
circumstances (e.g., imprisonment) is lawful, this
was detrimental to human rights and violated the
spirit of international human rights conventions,
such as the CRPD. Hence, we initiated the
establishment of an oversight mechanism that
inmates with disabilities” on June 28, 2022.
So far, we have held seminars with the Executive
Yuan, MOJ, and Ministry of Health and Welfare in
December 2022. Between December 2022 and
March 2023, we visited inmates with disabilities
in Hsinchu Prison, Chiayi Prison, Pingtung
Detention Center, Taoyuan Prison, Taoyuan
Women’s Prison, Tainan Detention Center, and
Tainan Second Prison.
d. Plan for the oversight mechanisms of CRPD:
Developing related independent oversight
mechanisms
On September 15, 2021 we announced the
would comply with Article 33 of the CRPD and
included it in our 2022 strategic plan. In June
2022 we issued the “Plan for the oversight
mechanism of CRPD”, with major contents
including:
▋ Discussion with groups representing persons with disabilities between the IRC members and the NHRC at the post-review forum of the
international review on the “Second National Report on the Implementation of CRPD”.
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National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report