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Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) yesterday welcomed nine international experts to the opening of a week of meetings to review Taiwan’s implementation of two UN human rights covenants. The meetings are also to involve government agencies and civil society groups. They were organized by the Ministry of Justice and the Executive Yuan to provide input and recommendations regarding the nation’s implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Cov...

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A permanent exhibition on Taiwan’s decades-long fight for speech freedoms opened on Thursday at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, where participants also remembered late democracy activist Deng Nan-jung (鄭南榕), who committed suicide 33 years ago. The exhibition, titled Taiwan’s Long Walk to Freedom of Speech, chronicles the country’s social movements and key events in support of speech freedoms, Minister of Culture Lee Yung-te (李永得) said at the opening ceremony. From ...

Taipei, April 7 (CNA) A permanent exhibition about Taiwan's decades-long fight for freedom of speech opened Thursday at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, where participants also remembered late activist Nylon Cheng (鄭南榕), who committed suicide exactly 33 years ago.

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In celebration of Taiwan’s freedom of speech day, Minister of Culture Lee Yung-te, front third left, National Human Rights Commission Chairperson Chen Chu, front second left, and senior adviser to the president Yeh Chu-lan, front left, attend the opening ceremony of the permanent “Taiwan’s long walk to freedom of speech” exhibition at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei yesterday.

The National Human Rights Commission on Friday urged the government to act against online bullying, protect digital education rights and ban corporal punishment. The commission at a news conference commented on its report on the government’s implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Action to combat online bullying is needed as 62.5 percent of its underage victims displayed symptoms of social anxiety, and 25 percent had suicidal thoughts, it said. Yunlin, Chiayi, Pingtung...

Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) reiterated the government's commitment to promoting human rights during a visit to a former detention center for political prisoners on Sunday, ahead of 228 Memorial Day, which commemorates the victims of the White Terror era in Taiwan.

The government is to remain committed to promoting human rights, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said yesterday as she visited a former detention center for political prisoners ahead of 228 Peace Memorial Day, which commemorates the victims of the White Terror era in Taiwan. Taiwan is continuing its democratic development and rejection of authoritarianism, Tsai said during the visit to Ankang Guesthouse, a euphemistic name given to the detention center for political prisoners in New Taipei Ci...

<strong>Remarks on Chen malicious</strong> Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Taipei city council candidates Huang Ching-ying (黃瀞瑩) and Yang Bao-zheng (楊寶楨), who is also the party’s spokeswoman, have caused an uproar with online body-shaming comments about Control Yuan President Chen Chu (陳菊). Yang said that Chen is “heavy,” to which Huang replied “the truth should be properly investigated no matter how heavy.” Since the incident, the pair have not offered a sin...