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進入《TAIPEI TIMES》 Chen Chu to be Control Yuan head
Former Presidential Office secretary-general Chen Chu attends an event in Kaohsiung on May 26. Photo: Wang Jung-hsiang, Taipei Times
DIVERSE EXPERTISE: President Tsai Ing-wen’s list of nominees for the National Human Rights Commission covers various areas to handle a variety of rights issues, sources said
By Dennis Xie / Staff writer, with CNA
Former Presidential Office secretary-general Chen Chu （陳菊） is to be appointed as Control Yuan president today, while doubling as head of the nation’s newly established National Human Rights Commission.
President Tsai Ing-wen （蔡英文） has drawn up a list of seven other people to serve on the commission, in line with the Organic Act of the Control Yuan National Human Rights Commission （監察院國家人權委員會組織法）, which was passed by the Legislative Yuan in December last year and promulgated in January.
Under the act, the 10-member commission is to be headed by the Control Yuan president and composed of seven Control Yuan members, with its other two members to be selected from candidates nominated by the commission members and replaced annually.
Chen, a Democratic Progressive Party member and a former Kaohsiung mayor, was imprisoned in the wake of the 1979 Kaohsiung Incident, when the then-Chinese Nationalist Party （KMT） regime arrested pro-democracy activists.
Other commission members to double as new Control Yuan members are Chi Hui-jung （紀惠容）, a long-time women’s rights activist; former League for Persons with Disabilities secretary-general Wang Jung-chang （王榮璋）; Youth Rights and Welfare secretary-general Yeh Ta-hua （葉大華）; and Antonio Hong （鴻義章）, a member of the Presidential Office’s Indigenous Historical Justice and Transitional Justice Committee, said sources familiar with the topic, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The new Control Yuan members are to assume their duties from Aug. 1.
The other commission members are current Control Yuan members: Wang Yu-ling （王幼玲）, a long-time activist for the rights of migrant workers and people with disabilities; former Judical Reform Foundation executive officer Kao Yung-cheng （高涌誠）; and environmental and human rights activist Tien Chiu-chin （田秋堇）, the sources said.
Tsai’s list nominated people with expertise and practical experience in various areas of human rights so that the commission would be able to competently handle a variety of rights issues, they added.
The sources said that Tsai nominated four women and three men to be on the commission, in line with the Organic Act of the Control Yuan （監察院組織法）, which states that the “composition shall be diverse and include representatives from different ethnic groups or professional fields” and “no gender shall constitute less than one-third of the members.”
The Control Yuan, a body with wide-ranging government oversight powers, has 29 members, including a president and a vice president, who are nominated by the president and approved by the Legislative Yuan.
新聞來源：TAIPEI TIMES
