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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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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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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?
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How States Invoke Human Rights to Justify Their (In)Actions
States increasingly rely on the language of human rights to frame and legitimise their policy choices. This practice is not inherently problematic: limitations on rights often require justification, and human rights law itself has an inherently justificatory structure. Problems arise, however, when states rely on arguments that deviate from the established criteria for limiting or…
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Expert Panel Survey on Legal Experts, Hui-Chieh Su
As part of WP4 Taiwan’s civil society engagement, three expert surveys were conducted to assess how different professional communities evaluated Taiwan’s COVID-19 response. The surveys targeted legal professionals, medical service providers, and members of the local civic tech community. Each survey included questions on demographic background, general attitudes toward pandemic measures, and field-specific assessments. Taiwan…
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Expert Panel Survey on Healthcare Professionals, Yu-Ling Huang
As part of WP4 Taiwan’s civil society engagement, three expert surveys were conducted to examine how legal professionals, medical service providers, and civic tech communities evaluated Taiwan’s COVID-19 response. Each survey included demographic questions, general assessments of pandemic governance, and field-specific issues. One survey focused specifically on healthcare workers. Early in the pandemic, healthcare personnel…
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Expert Panel Survey on Civil Tech, Shun-Ling Chen
As part of WP4 Taiwan’s civil society engagement, three expert surveys were conducted to assess how legal professionals, healthcare providers, and civic tech communities evaluated Taiwan’s COVID-19 response. Each survey included demographic questions, general attitudes toward pandemic governance, and field-specific assessments. The civic tech survey focused on Taiwan’s extensive use of digital tools for pandemic…
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