Archive for 'Taiwan'
DFAT documents on human rights in Taiwan
Last year I submitted a Freedom of Information (FoI) request to Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) via the website Right to Know. The purpose of the request was to find out about Australian government’s attitude toward and monitoring of human rights issues in Taiwan. In particular the request focused on information regarding the [...]
Posted: March 16th, 2013 under Human rights, Taiwan.
Tags: a-bian, australia, death penalty, dpp
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My letter to the Taipei Times about Chen Shui-bian
My letter urging the government of Taiwan to grant medical parole was published in the Taipei Times today. I have been concerned about the treatment of Chen Shui-bian for some time. The recent reports issued by the Control Yuan and international group of human rights experts* highlight that the government has treated Chen poorly and [...]
Posted: March 7th, 2013 under Human rights, Taiwan.
Tags: a-bian, taipei times
Comments: 2
Chomsky: it was a misunderstanding
Lin Ting-an (林庭安) is a Taiwanese student who visited Noam Chomsky and several other academics in the USA and asked them to support the campaign against a media monopoly in Taiwan. She took the photograph above of Chomsky holding a sign written in Chinese opposing media monopoly. The photo was widely republished in the Taiwanese media. [...]
Posted: February 1st, 2013 under News & media, Taiwan.
Comments: 3
Data and the death penalty
Michael Turton posted some statistics on the number of murders in Taiwan on his blog. I thought it would be interesting to graph this data alongside the number of executions carried out under the death penalty. I have used this data to create the chart above. The data pretty much speaks for itself. The number [...]
Posted: December 19th, 2012 under Human rights, Taiwan.
Tags: amnesty international, death penalty
Comments: 1
Reflecting on human rights
Today is Human Rights Day. It also marks 33 years since the Kaohsiung Incident, a key event which set Taiwan on the path to democracy. While Taiwan has made many advances in human rights since the days of White Terror and Martial Law it is worth taking some time to reflect on the state of [...]
Posted: December 10th, 2012 under Human rights, Taiwan.
Tags: amnesty international, death penalty, judicial reform, taipei times, transitional justice
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Taiwan needs to embrace clean energy
I co-signed the following letter which was published in the Taipei Times today. Is there an unfortunate misunderstanding about German politics and history among some Taiwanese? After two of us had to clarify the path Germany took to abolish the death penalty, (“Real deal behind abolition,” March 17, 2011, page 8), we now have to [...]
Posted: September 16th, 2012 under Environment, Taiwan.
Tags: Green Party, nuclear energy, renewable energy, taipei times
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