A Year of Human Rights Covenants: Great Leap for Taiwan National Human Rights Commission, Taiwan government agencies, civil groups, and schools. rights, and international human rights laws. details of events. The three examples below solutions in maintaining a balance between the Please refer to the Major Events (Appendix) for present a few of our achievements with different partners: i. “Pandemic Response and Human Rights Debate in the Digital Age” Conference with the Academia Sinica When COVID-19 began to have a significant political, economic, social, and cultural impact around the globe in 2020, governments of the world managed the daily life of their citizens with various monitoring techniques, employing digital technology to ensure more effective control of the pandemic. Taiwan also implemented various measures to bring the epidemic under control and protect the health of Taiwanese people. These measures included a name-based mask distribution system, a name-based vaccination system, an electronic fence, contact tracing, and case investigation. However, despite the positive value of using information technology and big data to monitor the disease, it is undeniable that such technology does impact basic human rights to a certain degree. It investigated the challenges and possible needs of public health and protection of human rights. A second session focused on a review of the mechanism for contact tracing, hoping to develop Taiwan’s countermeasures for handling public health crises in the future based on the experience of other countries. A total of 943 participants joined the symposium either onsite or online. ii. “Between Life and Death: A Human Rights Screening Tour” with Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty According to the jurisprudence of the ICCPR, the death penalty is a form of cruel and inhuman punishment. Hence, abolition of the death penalty is a goal of the NHRC. By organizing a screening tour of the film “Between Life and Death” with the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty—which has been advocating abolition of the death penalty for years—we hoped that all aspects of the abolition or continuation of the death penalty could be discussed rationally, including understanding victims, family members Regulation of the conflict between the public of both perpetrators and victims, other feasible poses a question. By sharing in discussion parole system and of the correctional system. institutions in the “Pandemic Response and 22 to November 30, 2022, and attracted over Conference, we sought to find a common also invited to share their opinion after watching interest and public health in such a time of crisis alternative forms of punishment, a review of the with the government, NGOs, and academic The tour with 24 sessions was held from October Human Rights Debate in the Digital Age” 1,800 viewers. A total of over 50 speakers were solution. This International Conference was the film. held in collaboration with the Institutum Iurisprudentiae of the Academia Sinica joined by experts and scholars from NGOs in Germany and South Korea. The first session started with from the Constitution, laws dealing with privacy iii. “The Torch of Human Rights Across Boundaries” poster exhibition with Amnesty International On January 7, 2022, we held “The Torch of Human Rights Across Boundaries” poster National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report 65