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ICERD Review: TAHR Urges Immigration Agency to Address Gaps in Asylum Instead of Beautifying with Disinformation

After more than half a century, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), which became legally binding for our country in 1971, finally held its first national report review meeting from April 22 to April 23. This meeting formally concluded today (April 26) with the review committee issuing its concluding observations. Below is the full text of the speech presented by our association concerning the refugee asylum of this review: During a recent ICERD review meeting, serious concerns were raised about how the Immigration Agency is handling refugee asylum issues. Critics argue that the…

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[Activity Note] Refugees of Nine Thousand Miles Road Lecture – The Gap Between Refugees and Stowaways

Author/ Wang Yuzhen,Editor/You Shi Ting, Lin Shu Han, Chen Pei Ru, Translator/ Viv Wong In today’s lecture: “Nine Thousand Miles Road,” Shu Han, Commissioner of the TAHR, and Mr. Xue Weiyu, a lawyer of the Legal Support Foundation, shared with the audience the process of case assistance that has occurred before. Since last year, TAHR has held annual lectures on refugee issues. This year (2021), due to the Covid 19 pandemic, the third lecture is organized online.  Background of Syria In Syria, ordinary people can now be arrested without arrest warrants, and armed attacks can be carried out against the…

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【Proposition】 Don’t Let President Tsai’s Talk of Rescuing the People of Hong Kong Become an Empty Promise

The following article was published on the Apple Daily on 2020/05/25 Written by Shih Yi-hsiang / Secretary General of the Taiwan Association for Human Rights The Chinese People’s Congress shocked the world on June 22nd with a draft of the “Decision on Establishing and Improving the Legal System and Enforcement Mechanism for the Safeguard of National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region”. The draft spoke of enacting measures against any activities that may subvert the regime and required the Hong Kong government to finish Article 23 to maintain China’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and unity across the two governments.…

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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…

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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…

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Nine Chinese exiles get residency after years without status

Nine Chinese exiles get residency after years without status By Alison Hsiao  /  Staff Reporter   Nine Chinese exiles in Taiwan — five dissidents and four Falong Gung practitioners — have been granted long-term residency permits after living in the nation for between five and 10 years without official status. They can become Taiwanese citizens after two years. According to the Epoch Times and Radio Free Asia, the nine Chinese exiles had originally asked for political asylum and have been granted long-term residence permits by the government. The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) confirmed the news yesterday. The five Chinese dissidents…

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Protect the rights of Tibetans in Taiwan

Protect the rights of Tibetans in Taiwan   By Huang Song-lih and Shih Yi-hsiang 黃嵩立，施逸翔  /  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 – Page 8     On March 10 every year, Tibetans around the world and their supporters come together to commemorate Tibetan Uprising Day. This year marks the 55th anniversary of the uprising. For Tibetans, neither Dharamsala, India, or free and democratic Taiwan is their homeland. Tibet is their home. In 1959, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) invaded Tibet, forcing the 14th Dalai Lama to flee, which triggered an exodus of Tibetans across the Himalayas into India, away from…

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Refugee, Asylum seekers and stateless people in Taiwan

UDHR the international human rights convention and the international society have confirmed the right to asylum. If a person is prosecuted by his country because he defends his own or other people's human rights, the other countries have an obligation to provide protection and follow the non-refoulement principle. Besides,states should prevent the stateless status and protect the stateless people.  Taiwan, is a democratic country proud of its human rights situation in Asia. How does the country treat the asylum seekers and stateless people? It will only take you a few minutes through the 3 short films to understand these people's…