Professor Hui-yen Hsu gave a lecture on Taiwan’s implementation of the ICCPR and the ICESCR

Hosted by the  international research project Law and the Other in Post-Multicultural Europe, Associate Professor William Hui-yen Hsu from Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, on Friday, 9th October 2015, gave a guest lecture on Taiwan’s implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

The lecture highlighted the implementation process Taiwan has gone through as a non-contracting party to the treaties, and the specific implementing measures adopted domestically to fulfill the goal. Professor Hsu supplemented the lecture with sample Supreme Court cases on cultural rights issues, as well as his personal observation of the changes to Supreme Court’s approach to death penalty pre- and post-implementation of ICCPR. Lastly, Professor Hsu suggested that the culture of human rights has remained premature in Taiwan, and that more changes to existing laws would be needed in order for the country to be fully aligned with that prescribed by the treaties.

 

Text and photo by Huang Yiyin