(III) Links Between the OtherAction Plans, Administration Plans, and the National Human Rights Action Plan

time period. As stated in the OHCHR’s Handbook on National Human Rights Plans of Action, the purpose of formulating national human rights action plans is to promote the improvement and protection of human rights in a nation. Incorporating the goal of “improving human rights” into public policies allow government departments to communicate and interact with different groups to work together on establishing specific goals and actions, using government administration plans to properly distribute resources and ensure targets and actions are completed within a set timetable. This is an important reason, purpose, and merit of formulating a national human rights action plan. Taiwan not only actively evaluates responses to the concluding observations and recommendations regarding each convention but also voluntarily proposed this action plan to meet the expectations of the UN for member states to develop national human rights action plans and receive the aforementioned benefits.

(III) Links Between the Other Action Plans, Administration Plans, and the National Human Rights Action Plan

In addition to the relevant aforementioned human rights action plan, the National Conference on Judicial Reform went through three phases from 2016 to 2017: gathering opinions, group meetings, and summary meetings, receiving 87 points and 303 sub-points of concluding observations, including access to judicial resources for disadvantaged groups, prison reform, and establishing child and gender-friendly judicial systems, each with relevant steps that can be taken to make improvements and establish an assessment mechanism. Implementing these steps are conducive to improving Taiwan’s judicial human rights, which is closely tied to the implementation of the human rights conventions like the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (hereafter referred to as ICCPR) and the CRPD.

Additionally, in line with the norms and spirit of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the government first announced the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights on December 10, 2020. The action plan covers business-related human rights protection issues, proposing future key directions and measures, requiring businesses to practice human rights protection and fulfill social responsibilities while pursuing economic development, which echoes the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (hereafter referred to as ICESCR).

Taiwan is currently drafting the Action Plan for Fisheries and Human Rights, which takes into account working environments and conditions, labor exploitation,