A Year of Human Rights Covenants: Great Leap for Taiwan National Human Rights Commission, Taiwan could engage in more cooperation and human rights exchange on international human rights issues, such as migrant workers, abolition of the death penalty, and freedom of the press. Chairperson Chen also expressed the intent of the NHRC to engage in such cooperation. e. Visits to the Parliaments and Human Rights Institutions and Groups in France and Germany At the invitation of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Institute of France, the German Bundestag’s Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid, the German- Taiwanese Association e.V. (DTG), and Europa Union Frankfurt and in fulfillment of her statutory duties to promote international human rights exchange, Chairperson Chen of the NHRC led a delegation to visit the independent human rights institutions, members of parliaments, and human rights executives of France and Germany. The delegation also held a seminar on human rights issues with FIDH members to exchange ideas and share the experience of Taiwan’s human rights promotion and learn from the experience of other countries. As France was the first stop of the trip, we visited the French National Consultative Commission on Human Rights to hold a dialogue on human rights issues. This French trip was also made under the MOU for cooperation with the French Office signed in Taipei in July 2022. The Expertise France’s stationing of a human rights expert in the NHRC in September 2022 led to the first concrete step in this Taiwan-France human rights cooperation. We will continue to promote the establishment of a substantive human rights exchange and cooperation between both parties. Germany was the next stop. As both Taiwan and Germany have similar views on human rights, we could share the core values of liberty, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. Additionally, Germany experienced a disintegration in 1949 after WWII and reunification in 1990. The persecution of ▋ Remarks at the German Bundestag’s Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid and meeting with committee members of different parties. National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report 69