A Year of Human Rights Covenants: Great Leap for Taiwan National Human Rights Commission, Taiwan a yearly basis. Staff size is also quite different as the CNCDH has a Secretariat of merely 10 full time staff while the NHRC has roughly 40. But the three French Human Rights institutions have a cumulated staff of over 300 people as the Rights Defenders has 250 staff and the CGLPL around 40. II. Peer to peer exchanges: a valuable tool to question one’s practices These meetings were important for the NHRC as it was the first time it went abroad Despite these differences, the essential to meet its peers. It gave it an opportunity to are to independently monitor the Human very short history as well as understand what produce reports with recommendations mainly human rights institutions entail. It has also stakeholders (companies, professional established institutions and how they fulfill their promote Human Rights culture and education rights in an independent manner from the State features of the NHRC and the CNCDH which present the work it has already done in its Rights situation in their respective countries, peer to peer exchanges between national to State institutions but also to other concerned allowed it to hear from the experience of more associations or even the public at large) and responsibilities to monitor and promote human are the same. apparatus despite being part of it. The principle ▋ The NHRC signed a four-party agreement on human rights cooperation with France. National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report 91