A Year of Human Rights Covenants: Great Leap for Taiwan National Human Rights Commission, Taiwan linking course design and instruction, while the Rights and Civic Education Promotion Plan” in is less emphasized. To make things worse, years, such as the introduction of various major development of the awareness of human rights a great number of instructors confuse law- abiding education with human rights education. Moreover, although both teachers and textbook writers are able to include different issues in human rights education, little has been done to link human rights, education to the values and principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) or other important literature on international human rights, which has a negative impact on the actual teaching. The research team also observed that although students’ right to expression has been advancing progressively, their right to be heard is not respected, and although there are groups advocating student rights, the mechanisms for student engagement in policy-making or campus governance are still unfriendly. 2022). Due to changes in the situation in recent international human rights conventions into Taiwan and the concern about the promotion of human rights education expressed in the concluding observations and recommendations in each of at least two international reviews of the related national reports, and the establishment of the NHRC in 2020, with overseeing the promotion human rights education of government departments as one of its duties, and the “National Human Rights Action Plan” which listed human rights education as one of the eight major human rights issues, with the MOE being the responsible agency, promulgated by the Executive Yuan in 2022, and the establishment of the Department of Human Rights and Transitional Justice by the Executive Yuan to start drafting the “National Transitional Justice Education Action Guidelines”, and also with the MOE being the responsible I. Re-assessing the labor and resource requirements related to human rights education To resolve the problems we currently face in promoting human rights education at the primary unit for transitional justice education, the MOE is advised to re-assess the services related to human rights education and examine if the “MOE Human Rights and Civic Education Promotion Plan” is sufficient to cover implantation of the requirements suggested by the factors listed above. and secondary levels, we can begin with the following three items: policy planning and education and adjust the corresponding planning II. E n g a g i n g p a r t i c i p a t i o n in policy planning and implementation and reporting the accomplishments to the public regularly and implements human rights education for Furthermore, civil society groups and student with the “MOE Human Rights and Civic Education policy planning and implementation of human implementation, course planning and teacher training, and the human rights environment on campus. In policy planning and implementation, the MOE is first advised to re-assess the labor and resources requirements for human rights for labor and funding. Currently, the MOE plans primary and secondary education in accordance Mid-Range Plan” (renamed the “MOE Human groups should be invited to participate in rights education. The MOE should design National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report 83

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