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Essays on Human Rights
cases, which should not take up too much
of its resources and time, it should focus on
its main role and function which is to analyze
and identify structural issues that result in the
State’s failure in its responsibility to protect,
providing a systemic analysis of evictions and
displacement in Taiwan, addressing violence
against children in schools or evaluating the
impact of women’s disproportionate role in
family care activities on their right to work. It is
promote and implement human rights.
an ambitious workplan and carrying it out will
After writing independent opinions to
with civil society organizations and human
contribute to the review processes of five
international conventions in 2021 and
2022, the NHRC has set out to work in that
direction by deciding to develop a strategic
workplan for the last three years of the current
Commissioners’ mandate in order to follow up
on IRCs concluding observations and better
define the areas of work to focus on. Some
important issues stand out in the plan, such
as promoting the abolition of death penalty,
allow the NHRC to increase its interactions
rights defenders in order to become more
familiar with these issues and refine its
positioning as an independent monitoring
mechanism of Human Rights in Taiwan. By
playing its cards right, it will also be able
to rely on a growing pool of human rights
experts and practitioners from international
NGOs and academia as the interest in Taiwan
grows internationally and institutions are more
open to cooperation.
▋ The NHRC visited Mr. Jean-Marie Burguburu, president of the French National Consultative Commission on Human Rights.
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National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report