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Taiwan and the Two Covenants: A Shadow Report. 4. Article 15 ICESCR: Cultural Rights
Discriminating against traditional organizations through taxes, the government restricts the right to participate in cultural life.
Taiwan and the Two Covenants: A Shadow Report. 3. How Taiwan Violates Article 11 ICESCR
The enforcement of tax bills consistently intrudes on citizens’ lives and unduly restricts fundamental human rights.
Taiwan and the Two Covenants: A Shadow Report. 2. Article 11 ICESCR: Right to an Adequate Standard of Living
The dysfunctional Taiwanese tax system constantly violates taxpayers’ rights and the Covenant.
Taiwan and the Two Covenants: A Shadow Report. 1. Article 2: Equal Rights
Taiwan made the two United Nations covenants on human rights part of its domestic legislation. But is it respecting them?
No Peace Without Justice: Tai Ji Men and the Moral Architecture of Peace
An international webinar warns that Taiwan’s statements for peace would remain empty words without a just solution to the Tai Ji Men case.
Tai Ji Men: The Only Possible Peace is Just Peace
In international politics and agitated societies, compromise and appeasement feed more conflict, deepening injustice.
No Peace Without Justice: Ibn Khaldun’s Lesson Applied to the Tai Ji Men Case
As Ibn Khaldun reminds us, injustice ruins civilization — but by restoring justice, we open the path to genuine peace for all.
The Tai Ji Men Case: Justice is a Bullwark Against Violence
If Taiwan’s authorities cannot ensure justice for a peaceful group like Tai Ji Men, less peaceful groups might resort to violence.
Tai Ji Men and the Importance of Trust and Justice to Achieve Real Peace
Peace studies emphasize the importance of conscience, which Tai Ji Men dizi systematically promote, and justice, which they are denied.
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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