A Year of Human Rights Covenants: Great Leap for Taiwan National Human Rights Commission, Taiwan covered labor market control, migrant workers in social welfare and public long-term care system, supply chain responsibility, and the sustainable development of global economy and trade. In addition to the experts and scholars in different areas and government officials, participants also included NGOs, people from different sectors and trades, students, and media workers. Due to the overwhelming response to the forum, registrants before the deadline already outnumbered the designated vacancies. On the forum date, all 120 seats were filled, and over half of them still stayed with the event in the afternoon to exchange opinions with online participants. As the policy on the human rights of migrant workers is also an important issue in international development, officials from the representative offices of Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, the US, and New Zealand also joined the forum for gathering information. The human rights of migrant workers have been one of our main concerns since the NHRC was established, and many incumbent members of the NHRC are experts in this area. The issue of migrant workers was one of the six prioritized concerns in the annual strategic planning of 2022. For a better understanding of migrant workers’ social circumstances in Taiwan, we spent one whole year on studying and analyzing their situations in production and social welfare sectors from the angle of international human rights conventions through collaboration with Associate Professor Lin Jia-he, College of Law, National Chengchi University, and Associate Professor Liuhuang Li-chuan, Department of Labor Relations, National Chung Cheng University. We also invited scholars, international experts, representatives of civilian groups, and representatives of relevant government agencies to discuss human rights protection for migrant workers in Taiwan in the forum. Confined by the long-standing notion that migrant workers are supplementary labor, the government simply imposes controls and restrictions on the related labor markets and overlooks the basic personal needs of migrant workers. As a result, the society does not actually understand their working conditions and their ▋ Participants at the 2022 Forum on Migrant Workers’ Human Rights in Taiwan. National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report 57

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