Part II > Our Efforts and Transformation living and cultural situations in an alien country. As this group of over 700,000 migrant workers is mainly working in rural villages, factories, fishing vessels, and civilian homes not easily seen by the general public over time, the general impression about them mostly comes from personal experiences or stereotypes. There is a lack of proper understanding of them. As the competent authority of migrant worker management, instead of simply limiting the rights and freedom of migrant workers, the MOL must “fully and effectively address” problems concerning the migrant workers’ rights, the legitimacy of differential treatment, and the limitation of some specific rights. In the forum, representatives of the Workforce Development Agency (WDA) of MOL maintained that the MOL was integrating the positions of different ministries and commissions so as to actively promote the domestication of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (Migrant Workers Convention) in Taiwan. Although local domestic caregivers are the target workforce of Taiwan’s long-term care system, migrant workers in social welfare are the actual caregiver workforce in Taiwan. Currently, a dualtrack phenomenon is observed in Taiwan’s care system and care workforce, i.e., Taiwan’s longterm care system and foreign domestic helper employment system. As both systems run almost in parallel, marking out the problems in this dual-track care labor market and the defects in migrant worker protection legislation. Starting out from the C189—Domestic Workers Convention (2011) of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Professor Liuhuang Li-chuan argued favorably for human rights, she reviewed the situation of foreign caregivers, and pointed out that the inadequacy of making long-term care as 58 National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report a public service has led to a lose-lose situation arising from the conflicts between families in need of long-term care service and foreign home caregivers, leaving the human rights issue of migrant workers in social welfare unattended. No labor issues can be separated from business operations. Based on the development of globalization, when a business forms its workforce with more workers from different countries, the sustainable development of the business and the human rights protection of migrant workers will never run in parallel but go hand in hand. In accordance with Article 11 of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), “Business enterprises should respect human rights.” In the forum, panelists introduced the development potential of related systems in different countries, such as the latest human rights due diligence laws and the human rights risk elimination systems of Germany, France, and the EU. They also reminded the relevant government departments that the sustainable development of businesses, human rights of migrant workers, and environmental sustainability are immediate, important issues in the global supply chain. From our investigation to the forum, we continuously gathered information from different parts of society and spared no efforts in inviting interested parties and related government agencies to discuss the relevant issues. Through the set-up of the forum agenda and the feedback of participants, we verified the next working plan of the NHRC. Although it was only a oneday forum, we hope to turn the event outcomes into the materials of human rights education and make discussion on the human rights of migrant workers more popular.

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