A year and a half later, on Human Rights Day 2001 (December 10th), various domestic groups offered observations and sponsored related activities. Apart from making overall assessments about the civil rights situation in Taiwan, President Chen also made a human rights policy statement, in which he expressed his hope that Taiwan's record in human rights would come to match those of the advanced industrial democracies.
時隔年餘，二○○一年的世界人權日，國內各人權社團紛紛檢視國內人權現況之外；陳總統也發表政策宣言，希望將台灣人權環境提升至普世人權價值，與先進國家同步。