id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
iiclr-17674	Shope, Mark L.	The Adoption and Function of International Instruments: Thoughts on Taiwan's Enactment of the Act to Implement the ICCPR and the ICESCR	2012	34	.pdf	application/pdf	14570	955	57	Accordingly, reference to international treaties by the Taiwanese courts is perfectly congruent with the precepts of Taiwan's legal tradition.97 By stating that [h]uman rights protection provisions in the two Covenants have domestic legal status, Article 2 of the Taiwan Act simply reinforces the fact that these international instruments will be given equal or possibly higher normative status than ordinary national legislation.98 To fulfill the Taiwan Act's desire to strengthen Taiwan's human rights protection system, the Judicial Yuan (the highest judicial organ of Taiwan), in addition to incorporating international instruments into court Interpretations, has drafted legislation to harmonize Taiwan laws with the Taiwan Act.99 Article 5 states that [t]he government should cooperate with other national governments and international non-governmental organizations and human rights institutions to realize promotion and protection of human rights provisions in the two Covenants.' 9 Article 6 states that [t]he government should set up human rights reports system in accordance with the two Covenants., 20 Specifically, this Note begins with a discussion of the rights embodied in the Covenants and briefly discusses their relation to Taiwan's constitutional and legislative guarantees of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights.2 Further discussion includes the challenges of international human rights law in Taiwan and the judicial adoption and the function of international human rights law from both a monist and a dualist point of view.	cache/iiclr-17674.pdf	txt/iiclr-17674.txt