Scientific Reports
Accessible reports, policy briefs, and project findings. This section translates research insights into practical knowledge for civil society, policymakers, and practitioners.
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HRJust WP 4 Report the Rights of the Child during the COVID-19 Pandemic vulnerability, intersectionality, and human rights justifications: A Civil Society Perspective
This report examines the human rights and children’s rights implications of the COVID-19 responses in Sweden and Finland, focusing on the balance between conflicting constitutional and human rights and the national structures for civil society engagement during emergencies like the pandemic. Both countries faced the challenge of protecting public health during the pandemic; however, children,…
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International Adoption and Migration: Complex Intersectionality in the Name of Love and Crime
There is a gap or perhaps more of a blind spot in legal theory regarding how to explain the relationship between socially constructed identities and non-socially constructed biological vulnerabilities in the meeting with the law. This has always been the methodological challenge of child rights. The Complex Intersectionality of the child as both a social…
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HRJust’s Pathway Towards Impact
The following report shows how a legislative proposal can be examined, challenged, and brought into broader public and legal debate. From identifying problematic human rights justifications, to collaborating with civil society, producing scientific research, and engaging both decision-makers and academia, this is what impact can look like in practice.
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WP 2 Reclaiming Human Rights for Effective Epidemic Control: Lessons from COVID-19 – a suggested policy approach for the EU
Epidemics, migration, climate, and gender are not independent domains of human rights; rather, they intersect and shape each other’s outcomes. The COVID-19 pandemic clearly demonstrated how these interactions influence both the spread of disease and its social and economic consequences. International travel, largely driven in the early phase by wealthier populations, contributed to the rapid…
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Memo: A Suggestion of HRJ Typology
Based on our review of Taiwan’s state reports under the six UN human rights conventions it has ratified or domesticated (ICCPR, ICESCR, ICERD, CEDAW, CRPD, CRC), we identify three distinct patterns of human rights justification (HRJ) in the State’s responses to allegations of rights violations, grounded in the dichotomy between State action and inaction (Types…
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Normalizing the Exception: Pandemic Governance, Data Use, and Human Rights in Taiwan Multi-layered Crises, Mobilized Solidarity and Stringent Measures
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Geopolitical Tensions, Rise of a “Digital Democracy” and Human Rights Implications
Due to the unique geopolitical relationship between Taiwan and China, Taiwan’s isolated status as a non-member State of the World Health Organisation (WHO), its geographic isolation, and its experience with the 2003 SARS outbreak, the Taiwanese government responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by implementing strict border controls and extensive contact tracing measures, even though it…
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Institutional Human Rights Protection without a UN-membership: Taiwan’s Domestication of International Human Rights Law
This memo examines the mechanisms through which Taiwan, as a non-Member State of the United Nations, protects human rights, including domestic judicial review and the voluntary implementation of international human rights conventions. Not only does the voluntary nature of Taiwan’s commitment render its binding force vulnerable, it also results in a lack of accountability when…
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Polarization, Party Line and Taiwan’s dilemma under the shadow of China: Unified government with weak parliamentary oversight or divided government paralyzed by political showdowns?