A Year of Human Rights Covenants: Great Leap for Taiwan
National Human Rights Commission, Taiwan
a yearly basis. Staff size is also quite different
as the CNCDH has a Secretariat of merely 10
full time staff while the NHRC has roughly 40.
But the three French Human Rights institutions
have a cumulated staff of over 300 people as
the Rights Defenders has 250 staff and the
CGLPL around 40.
II. Peer to peer exchanges: a
valuable tool to question
one’s practices
These meetings were important for the
NHRC as it was the first time it went abroad
Despite these differences, the essential
to meet its peers. It gave it an opportunity to
are to independently monitor the Human
very short history as well as understand what
produce reports with recommendations mainly
human rights institutions entail. It has also
stakeholders (companies, professional
established institutions and how they fulfill their
promote Human Rights culture and education
rights in an independent manner from the State
features of the NHRC and the CNCDH which
present the work it has already done in its
Rights situation in their respective countries,
peer to peer exchanges between national
to State institutions but also to other concerned
allowed it to hear from the experience of more
associations or even the public at large) and
responsibilities to monitor and promote human
are the same.
apparatus despite being part of it. The principle
▋ The NHRC signed a four-party agreement on human rights cooperation with France.
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