Austrian human rights lawyer Manfred Nowak said that Taiwan was “already among a very, very small number of countries in the world that still retain the death penalty, and the arguments that are time ...

Silwanus Tangkotta was working aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat in the remote Pacific last year, when a heavy wave slammed a ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Secretary-General of Amnesty International, Agnes Callamard, was in Taiwan for a series of high-level meetings with government officials and civil society organizations in ...

Third, Lee’s case highlights the contrast between Taiwan’s and China’s international engagement with human rights norms. In 2009, then Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou signed the International ...

Yu-Jie Chen and Jerome A. Cohen say Taiwan has come far in the protection of people ... The Ma administration invited 10 international human rights experts, many of them experienced in UN ...

Of course, Taiwan and the EU still have a lot to do on the issue of human rights. After the adoption of the Act to Implement “the Two Covenants,” Taiwan’s government proactively authored the nation’s ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Safeguard Defenders, a Madrid-based human rights non-governmental organization, has opened a new office in Taiwan. In an announcement published on Monday (May 17), Safeguard ...

Reporting from TAIPEI, Taiwan — China has detained a Taiwanese human rights activist, the government in Taipei said, in a case that people on the island call unusual and likely to depress ...

A high-profile criminal case that's back in court this month tests the island's developing democracy.

Patient in Mental hospital At the end of September this year that the Yuli Hospital of the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Hualien city treated patients as animals during the epidemic. The ...

Patient in Mental hospital At the end of September this year that the Yuli Hospital of the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Hualien city treated patients as animals during the epidemic. The ...