A Year of Human Rights Covenants: Great Leap for Taiwan National Human Rights Commission, Taiwan III. From Social Welfare to Human Rights Protection In traditional society, social welfare measures tended to treat the disadvantaged or vulnerable groups as the object of care, management, and charity, if not of fear. In practice, the demand for resources is often higher than the supply. However, as resources are never enough, allocation matters. Aimed at developing the basic dignity of individuals, the international standards of human rights support social pluralism of humankind. Persons with disabilities and migrant workers in Taiwan were the focus of our concerns in 2022. For persons with disabilities, we aimed at discerning if they have enjoyed equality at work and access to justice. We also conducted an in-depth investigation into the issues, which had attracted global attention, regarding work environment of foreign fishing crew and female migrant workers. Persons with disabilities a. Promoting examination and workplace equality: Special projects on reasonable accommodation Based on three investigation reports transferred from the Control Yuan, the “reasonable accommodation of national examinations for persons with disabilities,” “reasonable accommodation of college entrance examinations—General Scholastic Ability Test and Advanced Subjects Test—for students with disabilities,” and “reasonable accommodation of Performance Evaluation for Civil Servants with Disabilities,” we followed up with the administrative agencies, achieving the following concrete results: i. T h e D i r e c t o r a t e - G e n e r a l o f P e r s o n n e l Administration of the Executive Yuan completed the Manual for Employees with Disabilities in ▋ Visit of visually impaired youth groups. collaboration with the Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Health and Welfare, and Civil Service Protection and Training Commission for use by employees with disabilities and the hiring agencies. ii. In academic year 2021–2022, the Ministry of Education extended the examination time for the college entrance exams, General Scholastic Ability Test, and Advanced Subjects Test by 30 minutes for students with disabilities. In the following academic year 2022–2023, it further extended the time of subject tests by 50 minutes for students with disabilities. iii. The Ministry of Civil Service amended the Organic Regulations of Performance Evaluation Committee to specify that when the number of employees with disabilities in the public sectors reaches a certain threshold, at least one member with disabilities should have a seat in that committee. iv. With reference to the CRPD, the draft of the amendment to the Special Education Act stipulates that service items adopted should comply with the spirit of reasonable accommodation, and discrimination should be eliminated relating to learning and teaching activities on-campus and off-campus. National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report 47