outside camps, general prisons follow a 10-point scoring system, and they have
stricter requirements for the beginning and accruing credits for good behavior,
a system which varies across prisons. Therefore, most of the inmates in general
prisons would only qualify for sentence mitigation at a later stage of their
imprisonment. As a result, the difference in the actual sentence mitigation
applicable to the two types of prisoner can be huge. Such an imbalance in the
sentence mitigation mechanisms applicable to the two types of prisoner should
be remedied, to avoid deviation from the goal of substantial equality.
14.
Article 29 of the Special Education Act stipulates that the Ministry of Education,
may arrange for college or unversity admissions for students with disabilities
by assigning additional quotas each year, aside from the general admission
process, Colleges or universities would then decide on approving additional
admission quotas and the types of students with disabilities they would accept,
and define related requirements at their sole discretion. Since its
implementation, however, issues such as insufficient departments/institutes
recruiting students and uneven admission quotas, high uncertainty in admission
quotas offered by each department/institute each year, flawed difficulty
discrimination indices in examination questions, and insufficient examination
rooms have emerged, and created inequality among students who fall under
different disability categories. The Ministry of Education is advised to review
the necessity for the system of categorizing disabilities, as well as the problem
of uneven recruiting by departments/institutes and admission quotas.
Article 6 The Right to Life
Death Penalty
15.
Points 58 and 59 of the Concluding Observations and Recommendations
adopted by the International Review Committee for the Review of the Second
Report, dated January 20, 2017, mention that
Despite the fact that international law is increasingly recognizing the death
penalty as contrary to the rights of human dignity, the number of executions
has remained roughly the same in recent years and the Government continues
to justify its rigid attitude with opinion polls, allegedly proving that a large
majority of the population remains in favor of the death penalty. The Review
Committee urges the current Government of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
and President Tsai Ing-wen to take the lead in raising public awareness
against this cruel and inhuman punishment, rather than being exclusively
concerned with public opinion. To this end, the Committee strongly
recommends that the Government take decisive steps by immediately
introducing a moratorium on executions with the aim of a full abolition of the
death penalty in the near future.
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