
FIDH& TAHR--Joint Statement Taiwan: Initial State Report on ICCPR & ICESCR
26 April 2012 | 09:50 AM
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR) Joint Statement Taiwan: Initial State...

[Call for Endorsement] Taiwan: Stop the Forced Evictions of the Urban Renewal Victim Families
26 March 2012 | 04:58 PM
So far, there are 52 communities facing the same situation like the Wang families. If the Wang's houses are demolished, there...

Activists urge ROC to comply with UN human rights covenants
26 March 2012 | 04:38 PM
Source: Taiwan Today 03/12/2012 Legal experts and activists called on the ROC government March 9 to fast-track legal amendments...

People have the right to parade
09 January 2012 | 08:00 AM
Taipei Times 2012/01/08 By Tsai Chi-hsun 蔡季勳 Translated by Paul Cooper At the end of November last year, Taiwan Association for...

MOFA's fingerprinting plan is anti-human rights
04 January 2012 | 08:00 AM
Group blasts fingerprinting plan as anti-human rights 2012/01/02 21:39:28 Taipei, Jan. 2 (CNA) Taiwan's new plan requiring...

Activist acquitted on protest charge, pushes for reform
05 December 2011 | 08:00 AM
Taipei Times, page 3 By Loa Iok-sin / Staff Reporter Human rights activists yesterday celebrated a court decision declaring...

Joint Statement on Condemnation to the anti-democratic speech of formerpremier Hau Pei-Tsun
02 November 2011 | 08:00 AM
Joint Statement on Condemnation to the anti-democratic speech of former premier Hau Pei-Tsun (see Chinese version ) The former...

Groups push for revision of Assembly and Parade Act
05 October 2011 | 08:00 AM
[ Taipei Times Oct. 5th, 2011] Human rights groups renewed their call yesterday for the government to revise the Assembly and...

Open Letter to the Government of Taiwan on the resumption of executionsunder the death penalty
30 September 2011 | 08:00 AM
根據日前新聞報導,台灣政府即將於國慶日後執行另一批死刑,雖然法務部長否認,但新聞報導的來源來自於法務部高層,且法務部長也不否認台灣會繼續執行死刑。 總部位於巴黎的國際人權聯盟(FIDH)及總部位於泰國曼谷的亞洲人權與發展論壇(Forum-Aisa)...

Foreigners being unfairly detained, rights group says
27 September 2011 | 08:00 AM
Taipei Times Tue, Sep 27, 2011 Several civic groups yesterday called on the Control Yuan to look into dozens of cases of...