A panel of international academics and women's rights advocates on Friday completed its weeklong review of Taiwan's third national report of compliance with the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), producing 73 concluding observations and recommendations for continued improvement.
According to the Executive Yuan's Department of Gender Equality, the five-member panel was chaired by Ms. Heisoo Shin of South Korea and included Ms. Silvia Pimentel of Brazil, Ms. Violeta Neubauer of Slovenia, Mr. Niklas Bruun of Finland, and Ms. Bianca Pomeranzi of Italy. More than 453 officials from the executive, legislative, judicial, examination and control branches of Taiwan's government joined in the review, as did 121 representatives from nongovernmental organizations. Following the U.N. model for CEDAW review, the panel examined each article of the national report by government agencies and other reports from the private sector, and reviewed Taiwan's responses to a list of issues and questions.
Lo Ping-cheng, minister without portfolio and leader of Taiwan's delegation, thanked each of the five panelists for their hard work in completing the review within the scheduled timeframe. The Executive Yuan will see to it that government agencies implement the panel's recommendations and stay on track to produce the expected results, he pledged.