COMMITTEE NEEDED: Joanna Feng called on the government to resolve inherent systemic problems instead of simply making excuses and citing existing regulations
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 03, 2019
By: Rachel Lin and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Signature figures for the Humanistic Education Foundation’s online petition calling for the creation of a national committee to investigate sexual assaults on children are displayed on the National Development Council’s Public Policy Network Participation Platform Web site yesterday.
Photo courtesy of the Humanistic Education Foundation
According to the Guidelines for the Implementation of the Public Policy Network Participation Platform, relevant agencies must issue a response by the end of next month.
Foundation executive director Joanna Feng (馮喬蘭) said that the proposed policy received considerable support in such a short time — it was proposed on Tuesday last week — indicating that the public was concerned about the issue.
The foundation’s proposal was based on the concluding remarks of a panel of judges from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Feng said. [FULL STORY]
