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How Social Injustices Are Generated: Tai Ji Men and Axel Honneth’s Theory of Recognition
Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition helps explain the injustice inflicted for three decades on Tai Ji Men.
No Social Justice Without Freedom of Belief: State Recognition, Registration, and the Tai Ji Men Case
Registration systems are a way of limiting religious liberty. Unjust taxes are another.
Of Gorillas, Corruption, and Tai Ji Men
Social justice cannot be separated from ecology and from freedom of religion or belief. It was the lesson of Dian Fossey. It is the lesson of Tai Ji Men.
Tai Ji Men Returns to Geneva: A Familiar Shadow Is Back at the UN Human Rights Council
The twelfth United Nations submission on the Tai Ji Men case confirms Taiwan’s problems with the Two Human Rights Covenants.
In the Shadow of the ICCPR: Taiwan’s Struggle With Its Own Machinery
A sweeping report reveals how rights guaranteed on paper falter under administrative habits, as the Tai Ji Men case demonstrates.
Tai Ji Men Needs the ROC’s Respect for the Rule of Law
Judicial Day embodies the very meaning of democracy. Why, then, does Taiwan choose to erode democracy on a global scale by persisting in its unfair treatment of Tai Ji Men?
Justice Delayed After Justice Declared
Judicial Day reminds us that justice is not a one-time act but a process that requires coherence, institutional courage, and a willingness to repair the harm done.
Butterfly, Judicial Day, and the Tai Ji Men Case
Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” alludes to the Inequal Treaties in Japan. Judicial Day in Taiwan commemorates the end of similar treaties in China. It is also an opportunity to call for justice for Tai Ji Men.
Human Rights Day: Tai Ji Men and the Poetry of Resilience
Scholars and human rights activists honored the day of observance, anticipating the Tai Ji Men case’s entrance into its thirtieth year.
Calling for a Solution of the Tai Ji Men Case
We join Tai Ji Men in respectfully asking the government of Taiwan, whose commitment to democracy in a region plagued by non-democratic regimes we appreciate and applaud, to return through a political act the confiscated sacred land to Tai Ji Men and publicly confirm that, as Taiwan’s Supreme Court stated, they never violated the law nor evaded taxes.
It would be a small step for Taiwan’s government, but a crucial one to tell the world Taiwan is truly committed to freedom of religion or belief and to the protection of religious and spiritual minorities that were once persecuted by its authoritarian and post-authoritarian regimes.
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“The Tai Ji Men Case” web site is a project by Action Alliance to Redress 1219 whose aim is to collect and put at the readers’ easy disposal articles, documents, and videos—from academic studies to magazine articles—about the case of Tai Ji Men, a mempai (similar to a school) of qigong, martial arts, and self-cultivation headquartered in Taiwan, which has been victim of discrimination and persecution in its home country since 1996, and whose street protests have generated widespread international protests. Here you can find an exhaustive chronology of the case.
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