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Input for the Independent Expert’s report on AI and international solidarity to be presented to the 3rd Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2024

Input for the Independent Expert’s report on AI and international solidarity to be presented to the 3rd Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2024 submission prepared by Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR) TAHR Founded in 1984, Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR) is one of the most important and oldest human rights NGOs in Taiwan. TAHR has participated in many important democratic and human rights movements in Taiwan. Website: Contacts: info@tahr.org.tw, kuan@tahr.org.tw 2. Do you have access to procedures to communicate solidarity issues directly to AI Companies or State Institutions? What kind of procedure do you…

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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…

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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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【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. 

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Joint Statement Condemning the Violent Crackdown on the Peaceful Pro-Democracy Protestors in Hong Kong

Joint Statement Condemning the Violent Crackdown on the Peaceful Pro-Democracy Protestors in Hong Kong translator: David Wu proofread: Shaina Wang   On the sixtieth day of the Umbrella Movement, protesters at Mong Kok (旺角) were violently cracked down and forcedly evicted by the overwhelming force of more than six-thousand policemen. The heavily-armed police force cleared off the peaceful and un-armed protesters with batons and tear-gas guns. More than eighty protestors were arrested, including the Vice Secretary-General of HKFS Joshua Wong (黃之鋒) and the Convener of Scholarism Lester Shum(岑敖暉). Evidence shows that Joshua Wong was beaten in the police office.   The…

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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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END CRIME, NOT LIVES!

 END CRIME, NOT LIVES!   THE JOINT STATEMENT OF ASIAN ABOLITIONISTS ON THE 11TH WORLD DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY     October 10, 2013   There is increasing recognition among nation states that capital punishment is undesirable. The global movement for the abolition of the death penalty has grown significantly in the past decade, and a milestone was reached when the United Nations General Assembly voted on a moratorium in 2007. According to UN statistics, more than 150 States today have either abolished the death penalty or halted executions.   However, it remains troubling that a number of countries…

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International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance

International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance   [pdf] FINAL VERSION 10 JULY 2013 As technologies that facilitate State surveillance of communications advance, States are failing to ensure that laws and regulations related to communications surveillance adhere to international human rights and adequately protect the rights to privacy and freedom of expression. This document attempts to explain how international human rights law applies in the current digital environment, particularly in light of the increase in and changes to communications surveillance technologies and techniques. These principles can provide civil society groups, industry, States and others with a…