▋ The NHRC staff
the human rights of foreign fishermen. We also conducted a special inquiry ( 專案訪查 ) into migrant
workers’ child-rearing problems. Lastly, although human rights education has been advocated
in Taiwan for 20 years, no comprehensive national human rights education plan has ever been
adopted. In 2022 we completed an analysis of Taiwan’s human rights education in primary and
secondary schools, aiming at facilitating and prioritizing our tasks in human rights education.
Our readers can certainly understand more about the NHRC’s work through this report. There are
indeed challenges and dilemmas. Currently, the NHRC is at a stage of self-examination. How to
interact with the administrative units of the Control Yuan and whether a working relationship with
the NHRC members could be established are our immediate problems. Over the past three years,
besides a series of projects and investigations dictated by the NHRC resolutions, we have also
engaged in human rights promotion programs as directed by individual members. Yet due to our
limited capacity, the progress and degree of completeness of individual projects varied. As the
workforce was gradually filled at the end of last year, we started facing challenges including new
staff training and keeping up their enthusiasm. As the NHRC’s executive secretary, I hope that
the NHRC can have a better understanding of its role and functions, and the members can better
coordinate and reach a consensus on the priorities of their work.
Lastly, I want to thank the members of the editorial advisory board for their participation in several
editorial meetings and their suggestions concerning the structure and contents of this report.
Through this report, the NHRC hopes to faithfully explain to the public its missions, achievements
as well as determination to resolve the dilemma and predicaments. We call for unity, solidarity,
and the realization of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Executive Secretary
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