Part VI ＞ Essays on Human Rights The Rights Defender (Défenseur des droits), and organizational issues faced by human cases and has five areas of competence: positioning is always a much-debated issue, on the other hand, mainly deals with individual children’s rights, access to public services, fight against discrimination, ethical behavior of security personnel and protection of whistleblowers. This institution receives over 100,000 complaints a year and also publishes analytical reports with key policy recommendations based on the numerous cases it receives on a daily basis. Because of its area of expertise, the Rights Defender usually provides an independent opinion to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Lastly, the Controller of Places of Deprivation of Liberty (CGLPL) monitors the human rights situation of persons detained in such places (prisons, detention centers, psychiatric hospitals, juvenile detention centers, etc.). It receives complaint letters from detainees and patients and carries out regular, impromptu visits across the nation. It is also in charge of monitoring the implementation of the Convention Against Torture in France. At the end of 2022, two series of exchanges between the French National Consultative Commission on Human Rights and the Taiwanese NHRC were organized. In November, a representative from the CNCDH came to Taipei to give a keynote speech about the positioning ( 定 位 ) of national human rights institutions and their relationships at the annual conference organized by the NHRC. It was also an opportunity to have internal discussions with Commissioners and staff to deepen the ideas presented during the conference and discuss more thoroughly about working methodologies 90 National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report rights institutions. A human rights institution’s especially in the early days of its existence. In Taiwan, as elsewhere, all the stakeholders who interact with the Commission are concerned with this issue, from NGOs, scholars, officials and MPs to members of international convention review committees and representative offices in Taiwan. These initial discussions were further developed when a delegation of the NHRC, led by its President Chen Chu, went to Paris a month later and met with the President of the CNCDH as well as with the CGLPL. The delegation also met with several French NGOs and unions working on human rights internationally as well. It provided an opportunity to talk about human rights issues in Taiwan such as the abolition of death penalty, migrant workers’ rights or indigenous rights. As mentioned above, there are a few differences between the Taiwanese and French way of setting up human rights institutions. Firstly, France has set up different human rights institutions with different mandates while, for now, Taiwan has chosen to establish one institution, the NHRC, with a very wide mandate roughly equivalent to the three French institutions. Therefore, the mandates of the CNCDH and the NHRC do not fully overlap. Moreover, the number of members is quite different given the CNCDH has many more members (60 to be precise), half of which come from the main NGOs and unions in France while the other half are human rights experts (academics, former Special Rapporteurs, former judges, lawyers, etc.) while the NHRC has eight full members and two that rotate on