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Taiwan's Human Rights, criticism ★ this site's world No. 1 in 2020~23, 2017~19, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2010~12 ★ Top since 1998 |
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Taiwan's Human Rights by
world reports
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Dr. Joseph Nye ( a former dean of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a former assistant secretary of defense, a deputy assistant secretary of state ) said in a speech under the theme of "Taiwan's Soft Power" at Dec. 8, 2010 that :“The answer is as long as Taiwan stands for democracy and human rights, that will be impossible ( the Americans make a deal and sell out Taiwan forsomething that they want from China) in American political culture.”
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★ US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices released at 2022-4-12 (state.gov/reports/2021-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/taiwan/):
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Worker Rights
nLarge enterprises frequently made it
difficult for employees to organize an enterprise union through methods such as
blacklisting union organizers from promotion or relocating them to other work
divisions. These methods were particularly common in the technology sector.
nThere
was reported discrimination, including employment discrimination, against
persons with HIV or AIDS
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♣ PS: Taiwan has persecution cases which has not been included in US Human Rights report
★ justsecurity.org,
Focus Taiwan, Taipei Times, etc, 2022-5-13:
Invited by Taiwan's government, an international human rights
experts panel conducted a five-day review from May 9-13 in Taipei of the
country's implementation of two United Nations' human rights-related covenants,
namely the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
nfreedom
of speech and of peaceful protest continues to be unduly restricted.
n The panel's report also highlighted the absence of legislation to curb torture and discrimination in Taiwan. “The information provided by the government clearly shows that there are many allegations of torture against law enforcement officials in Taiwan,” the report said, adding that those cases only led to disciplinary action instead of criminal prosecution. The nation has yet to make incorporate torture — the crime of inflicting severe mental or physical pain or suffering on a powerless person for a particular purpose as defined in international law — into its Criminal Code
nThe human rights panel experts are critiquing Taiwan's record on issues such as the death penalty, torture, gender equality, broader forms of discrimination, the status of indigenous peoples, and the rights of migrant domestic workers (especially given the greater burdens on caregivers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic).
nThe Concluding Observations and Recommendations of the international review committee underlined the importance of Taiwan completing its process of incorporating key norms into its domestic law, by adding the three conventions – the Convention Against Torture, the Convention on Migrant Workers, and the Convention on Enforced Disappearances. The committee also reiterated the need to explicitly prohibit torture in Taiwan’s criminal code. The review committee also urged Taiwan to issue a declaration (pursuant to Article 12 of the Rome Statute) recognizing the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
n international panel experts called on Taiwan to end the “cruel and degrading” practice of capital punishment. The nine-member group said it was "extremely disappointed" at the failure of Taiwan's government to address the issue. "Taiwan is already among a very, very small number of countries in the world that still retain the death penalty, and the arguments that are time and again, repeated by the government, are far from convincing," experts said the "cruel, inhuman and degrading" punishment was in violation of ICCPR's Article 6 and 7.
nTaiwan’s failure thus far to incorporate the Convention on
Migrant Workers or to adopt a domestic workers protection law is of additional
concern given the vulnerability of these workers — many of them women who
provide crucial long-term services to the elderly and disabled — to adverse,
discriminatory measures related to the pandemic. Their precariousness is further
underlined by their low pay, lack of union representation, and the subordination
of their bargaining power to the interests of the governments of their home
countries because of Taiwan’s reliance on a Philippines-style
labor-export model.
Many of these workers are identifiable as observant Muslims because of their dress, and are of Southeast Asian (primarily Indonesian, Filipino, Malaysian, and Vietnamese) origin, which differentiates them from most of the population in Taiwan and could make them susceptible to forms of discrimination that are not regulated – hence the need to incorporate the convention’s terms into law. The committee also noted the need to bring migrant workers within the protections of Taiwan’s overall system of labor regulation and received multiple reports regarding limitations on migrant workers’ rights to change employment, to obtain permanent residency, and bars to the migration of family members, resulting in the induced separation of families. The committee also noted its concerns regarding widespread reports of abuses against the conditions of labor for fisheries workers. Many of these are also migrants.
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In 2017, another
international human
rights experts review
panel
( Philip Alston, law
professor at New York University; Eibe Riedel, former member of the United Nations Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Jerome Cohen, law professor at New York
University; and Nisuke Ando, professor emeritus at Kyoto University, etc. )
conclusively
advised Taiwan
legislating a new law against torture and other cruelties.
Till middle Jun.
2022, Taiwan just
turned a deaf ear to them.
eprints.soas.ac.uk/24511/1/Caldwell_The%20Control%20Yuan%20and%20Human%20Rights%20in%20Taiwan.pdf:
Taiwan would still lack a NHRI that complies with
the Paris Principles. The Control Yuan would still be subject to the negative
effects of the semi-presidential system that could severely limit its ability to
effectively protect human rights. The highly volatile
political climate, and the way in which party politics play out within Taiwan’s
semi-presidential system, have the potential to seriously impede the Control
Yuan’s functionality.
★ CovID-19 in Taiwan : very high death rates
According to New York
Times (2022-10-25), Taiwan's CovID-19 cases per 100,000 and deaths per 100,000
both are the worst among main Asian countries.
The China Times (2022-10-26): Taiwan's confirmed cases per 1000,000 in last 7 days ranks world last. (chinatimes.com/opinion/20221025005192-262101?chdtv)
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