Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/11/20
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan

Taipei, Nov. 20 (CNA) Local nongovernmental organizations (NGO) advocating children’s

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rights raised various issues on the protection of children with international experts as the weeklong review of Taiwan’s first state report under the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) got under way on Monday.

Jakob Egbert Doek, a guest lecturer from the Children’s Rights and Family Law Department at Leiden University in Holland, led an international group of five reviewing the report the Taiwan government published in November last year, two years after the Legislative Yuan enacted the “Implementation Act of CRC.”

“It’s an extraordinary indication of the commitment to the principles and rights of the convention,” Nigel Cantwell, a member of the group, told CNA when speaking of Taiwan freely subjecting its implementation of the CRC to a UN-type review when its ratification is not recognized by the UN.    [FULL  STORY]