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Memo: Civil Society Engagement Summary I
This memo summarizes two focus group interviews conducted by the Taiwan team of WP5 on February 21 and March 7, 2025, with non-governmental organizations working on immigration policy, human rights protection, and advocacy. The discussions centered on participants’ experiences of HRJ rhetoric used by the government, their observations of the features of such rhetoric, and…
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Focus Group Interview with People Who Underwent Quarantine, Ching-Yun Tai & Shun-Ling Chen
As part of our civil society engagement, the WP4 Taiwan team organised three focus groups examining how pandemic governance in Taiwan disproportionately impacted certain social groups: frontline health professionals, pilots, and individuals who experienced quarantine during COVID-19. The third group brought together people who had undergone quarantine, offering first-hand perspectives on isolation measures, enforcement practices,…
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Focus Group Interview with Pilots, Ching-Yun Tai & Shun-Ling Chen
As part of our Civil Society Engagement, the WP4 Taiwan team conducted three focus groups to understand the experiences of social groups that had been disproportionately affected by the pandemic governance in Taiwan: frontline health professionals, pilots, and people who underwent quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic. These focus groups, along with desk research, enable the…
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Mapping out HRJs in Taiwan
This memo summarizes the research questions, steps, theory, and preliminary findings of Team Taiwan from Work Package 5 (migration) over the first nine months, spanning from March to December 2023. The team conducted a comprehensive review of state reports submitted to committees of UN human rights conventions that are domesticated in Taiwan. Through this analysis,…
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Focus Group on Covid-19 Governance with Frontline Health Professionals, Ching-Yun Tai et al.
As part of WP4 Taiwan’s civil society engagement, we conducted three sets of expert surveys to understand how people in legal professions, medical service providers and the local civic tech communities evaluate Taiwan’s COVID-19 responses. All three surveys consist of three parts: 1) demographic information, 2) general attitude toward COVID-19 responses and 3) field-specific questions.…
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Report from ‘HRJust: COVID-19 Governance Workshop’
Read the full report from our recent workshop in Taipei that addressed several aspects of COVID-19 governance. Participants discussed dimensions of the pandemic response to groups who were considered to have received insufficient attention in public discussions.
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Report from ‘Migrants Rights Under Threat’ seminar, Paul Lappalainen & Olha Bulhakova
Read the full report on HRJust’s contribution in the seminar ‘Migrants Rights Under Threat’, organized by the NGO Civil Rights Defenders:
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Memo: HRJs in Taiwan Human Rights Reviews and Court Cases-Institutional Backgrounds and Initial Observations (For D5.1)
This memo summarizes the research questions posed, the desktop research conducted, and the preliminary observations made by Team Taiwan from Work Package 5 (Migration) over the first 20 months, spanning March 2023 to November 2023. During this research period, the team mapped out HRJ techniques used by the Taiwanese government and made observations to inform…
