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Durkheim, Solidarity, and the Tai Ji Men Case
One of the fathers of sociology presented solidarity as the necessary cement of societies. Tai Ji Men tells us it should be based on conscience.
Human Rights’ Roots in Conscience: A Basic Tai Ji Men Teaching
Conscience expresses the peculiar, irreducible, and intangible human nature, which makes all persons both similar and diverse. Human rights derive from it.
Tai Ji Men: A Human Rights Case
On United Nations Human Rights Day, international scholars and human rights activists called for a solution of the Tai Ji Men case.
Fighting for Human Rights with Tai Ji Men
Tai Ji Men dizi both relentlessly promote human rights and are victims of their violation in Taiwan.
The Universality of Human Rights and the Tai Ji Men Case
Those who claim that human rights are not universal usually are those who do not respect them.
Violence Against Women and the World Prayer Day
The problem of gender-based violence continues to plague all continents. Tai Ji Men’s proposal of a World Prayer Day may help solving it.
Peace Through Prayer: The Great Challenge of Tai Ji Men
A world in peace is a world without violence—and without violence against women. Tai Ji Men dizi know this by experience.
The Golden Chain and the World Prayer Day
Rembrandt painted Aristotle contemplating a bust of the Greek poet Homer and wearing the “golden chain of Homer,” a metaphor of unity and a fit symbol for the World Prayer Day.
The World Prayer Day: A Proposal to Eradicate Violence
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, scholars and activists endorsed the proposal of a world day for prayer as an antidote to all violence.
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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