The China Post
Date: November 21, 2017
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan
TAIPEI (CNA) – Local nongovernmental organizations (NGO) advocating children’s rights
President Tsai Ing-wen, center in the back row, welcomes the foreign experts invited to review Taiwan’s first state report under the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child on Nov. 20, 2017. TSAI also gave an address in which she reaffirmed the government’s commitment to promoting and protecting the rights of children through the implementation of the CRC. (CNA)
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.
Since 2009 Taiwan has ratified six of the UN’s nine core international human rights treaties and enacted separate legislation aimed to bring the nation’s legal framework into line with international norms, according to the Ministry of Justice. [FULL STORY]
