International solidarity
Wi-Fi Now for Fishers Rights: Solidarity Gathering Outside the 2023 Boston Seafood Expo North America
Translated by: Chl, Intern Edited by: Zoe Wang, Intern (Photo: Wi-Fi Now for Fishers’ Rights at Sea) Migrant fishers campaigned for fundamental labor rights and Wi-Fi access while at sea alongside several domestic and international NGO groups. On Monday Taiwan time, they arrived in Boston and held peaceful demonstrations outside the Seafood Expo North America. Shi Yixiang, Secretary-General of the Taiwan Association for Human Rights: “Many say that Taiwan is a free and democratic country that values human rights in the Asia Pacific region, and that it is a technological powerhouse where everyone can easily enjoy convenient and inexpensive…
Taiwan: Second execution under President Tsai condemned
FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights and its member organizations in Taiwan Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR) and Covenants Watch Joint press release Taiwan: Second execution under President Tsai condemned Paris, Taipei, 2 April 2020: Yesterday’s execution of a convicted murderer casts serious doubts on Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen’s commitment to human rights and marks a setback in Taiwan’s efforts to abolish the death penalty, FIDH and its member organizations Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR) and Covenants Watch said today. “President Tsai ends her first term on a disappointing note. She should reverse course…
Shining a Light into the Shadows: Empowering Tibetans to Defend against Cyber Espionage
By Citizen Lab and Tibet Action Institute Tenzin, is a designer who is hard at work updating the website of a Tibetan human rights organization. She receives an email that includes a file attachment from a group of colleagues who have been working with her on the project. At first look it seems like just another one of the mundane emails we receive everyday. But beneath the surface something much more insidious is happening. The email was not sent by her colleague, but by someone pretending to be them. If the attachment was opened it would appear to be…
Shining a Light into the Shadows: Empowering Tibetans to Defend against Cyber Espionage
Shining a Light into the Shadows: Empowering Tibetans to Defend against Cyber Espionage By Citizen Lab and Tibet Action Institute Tenzin, is a designer who is hard at work updating the website of a Tibetan human rights organization. She receives an email that includes a file attachment from a group of colleagues who have been working with her on the project. At first look it seems like just another one of the mundane emails we receive everyday. But beneath the surface something much more insidious is happening. The email was not sent by her colleague, but by someone pretending to…
【聲明】Joint Statement of Taiwanese Human Rights Groups Condemning the PRC government’s Large-scale Suppression of Chinese Human Rights Defenders
We, the civil society in Taiwan, strongly urge the Chinese government respect human rights and immediately release the human rights lawyers and human rights defenders who have been taken away since the early morning of July 9 from their workplaces or homes with no proper reasons or procedures.