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    A New Tool for Promoting Human Rights in Taiwan

    Earlier this month Taiwan concluded a United Nations-type review of its implementation of the two principal human rights treaties, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). It is the first time Taiwan has undergone an outside, comprehensive evaluation of its human rights record in a wide range of areas. Although this on-site review received little international or local media attention, its effects on the island’s human rights should not be underestimated.

    Jerome Cohen Awarded PCI Building Bridges Award

    On February 28th, the Pacific Century Institute awarded Professor Jerome Cohen the 2013 PCI Building Bridges Award, established to honor people who have enhanced relations between Americans and Asians and who exemplify PCI’s commitment to building bridges to a better future. Former awardees include Kathleen Stephens, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea 2008-2011; Harold Brown, US Secretary of Defense 1977-1981; Maestro Lorin Maazel of the New York Philharmonic; and Christopher Hill, US Assistant Secretary of State 2005-2009.

    USALI Research Fellows Cited in Recent Article on Li Zhuang

    Vincent R. Johnson and Stephen C. Loomis’  recent article, “The rule of law in China and the prosecution of Li Zhuang,” published in The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (2013), cites current and former USALI research fellows Margaret K. Lewis, Ling Li, and Elizabeth Lynch’s research on corruption and criminal justice issues in China. The [...]

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    Taiwan quietly forging ahead in human rights protection

    For over four decades after the Allied victors in the second world war allowed Chiang Kai-shek’s Chinese government to reclaim Taiwan from Japan, the generalissimo’s Kuomintang maintained a ruthless Leninist-style dictatorship over the island. Yet KMT propaganda hoodwinked many outside the island to believe that it, unlike the Maoist regime that chased it from mainland China in 1949, was the defender of democracy, the rule of law and human rights for Chinese people.

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    China correspondent for The New Yorker speaks at U.S.-Asia Law Institute

    Evan Osnos, the Beijing-based correspondent who writes The New Yorker’s “Letter from China” dispatches, spoke at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute (USALI) on February 28. Osnos, who served as the Chicago Tribune’s Beijing bureau chief before he joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008, has reported on Chinese hacking, corruption, clean energy and the influx of African merchants.

    Friends of the Institute

    Report: Women Leading Lawmaking in China

    This compilation of papers brings together some of China’s leading voices on gender and the law. The Global Women’s Leadership Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is animated by the mission of advancing women’s equal representation in all decision-making positions in public service and in civic leadership. The essays in this seminal compilation on China’s gender and anti-discrimination law speak to combating challenges to women’s decision making in the public sphere in China.

    Jobs, Internships and Opportunities

    Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers – 2013 Summer Program Internship

    The Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers seeks an enthusiastic and motivated 2013 Summer Program Intern to assist in research and advocacy efforts on a full-time basis.