Chapter 4. Human Rights Issues

Chapter 4. Human Rights Issues

The “actions” described in this chapter on each sub-issue are not intended to cover all the actions planned by the government, instead, they are the core issues that must be prioritized, including common issues and mechanisms consistent across conventions, and actions with high policy level and organizational structure.

Each chapter will first include a brief explanation of the background, implementation status, current shortcomings, deficiencies, or areas in need of improvement of each sub-issue, before going into detail about “actions” taken to solve the above-mentioned problems, the relevant parties and competent authorities involved in the “actions,” a “timetable” for completing said actions, as well as “key performance indicators” for evaluating whether the goals of the “actions” have been achieved. Depending on the characteristics of the “actions” taken, if the specific content of an “action” has already been presented in each of the action plans or related actions, it will be presented through an outline and not described in detail in this chapter (e.g., Chapter 4, Human Rights Issue I. Strengthening the Human Rights Protection System (II) Promote the incorporation and implementation of the core UN human rights conventions into domestic legislation is the Implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination(hereafter referred to as ICERD). Regarding the specific content of the implementation and promotion of the Convention, the government has formulated a separate International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Promotion Plan(hereafter referred to as ICERD Promotion Plan); as for “actions” that do not fall into the above-mentioned situations or are not mentioned in other action plans, but are of great importance and can accurately address human rights deficiencies in sub-issues with clear and concise steps, the content of these “actions” will be summarized so that different sectors of society are made aware of the clear actions that the government intends to take.

The “actions” proposed by competent authorities in this chapter were all proposed after taking a comprehensive inventory or available resources, weighing the current inadequacies of human rights protection in Taiwan as well as international human rights changes, evaluating the organization of resources (including budget and manpower), and setting concrete goals and completion schedules; other than the first draft stage of this action plan, as described in Chapter 1, Section 4, Public Participation and Communication, relevant large-scale public hearings and briefing sessions for separate issues were held to initiate dialogue and communication with various sectors of the community. In addition, depending on factors like type, nature, or necessity of different “actions,” competent