National Human Rights Commission Urges Ministry of Education to Build Digital Administrative Database for Child Rights Monitoring

(Central News Agency reporter Kao Hua-chien, Taipei, 30th) The National Human Rights Commission today stated that in order to implement the concluding observations of the international review of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) national report and avoid increasing the administrative burden on school personnel, the Ministry of Education should promptly establish a digital administrative database to monitor the implementation of child rights in educational settings.

The Human Rights Commission stated in a press release that the concluding observations of the first international review of the CRC national report in 2017 clearly pointed out that, in accordance with General Comment No. 5 of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on general measures of implementation, it is recommended that the government improve its data collection system and consider establishing a central data collection unit; and that the collected data should cover all aspects of the Convention, categorized by gender, age, urban/rural, indigenous and ethnic background, and where relevant and appropriate, by disability, nationality, and sexual orientation.

The Human Rights Commission pointed out that according to its independent evaluation opinion for the second CRC national report in 2022, and its experience in various child rights projects over the past two to three years, the Ministry of Education has not yet established a data collection system related to student rights and lacks relevant long-term statistical data. As a result, when collecting data from education authorities, the authorities often ask schools at all levels to fill out reports, which unnecessarily increases the administrative burden on schools, and some files have been lost due to changes in personnel.

The Human Rights Commission said that it shares the sentiment of some teacher groups who have reflected that education authorities should establish a comprehensive data collection system to directly retrieve data from existing databases, thereby avoiding increased administrative burden on schools.

The Human Rights Commission stated that it calls on education authorities to implement General Comment No. 5 of the CRC and the concluding observations of the first international review of the CRC national report, and to promptly allocate budgets to establish a digital system database for school administration, in order to implement human rights monitoring and data analysis, grasp policy development, and avoid suddenly increasing the administrative burden on school personnel. (Editor: Zhai Sijia) 1150430

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