1st Edition

Emerging Human Rights in Taiwan Between an Oppressive Past and an Uncertain Technological Future

Edited By Yi-Chun Chou, Mab Huang Copyright 2027
236 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines emerging human rights issues in Taiwan. It comprehensively covers topics such as the #MeToo movement, the protection of health data, artificial intelligence, parental discipline, and the trans-species politics of gendered human rights and humanized animal welfare. Authored by both well-established scholars and emerging researchers, the book fills a critical gap in the... Read more

1. Introduction

Mab Huang and Yi-Chun Chou

Part 1: Digital Transformation and Human Rights

2. Mapping the Protection of Health Data Movement in Taiwan: Individual Autonomy, Data Governance, and Privacy in Healthcare

Ching-Yi Liu

3. The Reuse of National Health Insurance Data and the Protection of Information Privacy in Taiwan

Chuan-Feng Wu

4. Defending Democracy and Human Rights in Taiwan: Strategies for Countering Cognitive Warfare and Building Resilience

Puma Shen

5. Taiwan’s Sociotechnical Challenges of Business and Human Rights (BHR) in the Algorithmic Age

Rebecca C. Fan

Part 2: Social Relations, Culture, and Human Rights

6. #MeToo Movement in Taiwan: Undoing the Gendered Sexual Script with Women’s Rights Discourse

Mei-Hua Chen

7. Gendered Human Rights and Humanized Animal Welfare in Taiwan: The Trans-species Politics of Eggs

Chun-Mei Chuang

8. Addressing Family Caregiver Homicides within Taiwan’s Long Term Care Policies: Familialism vs. Human Rights

Yi-Chun Chou

9. Parenting and Children’s Rights in Taiwan: Rethinking Parental Discipline and the Future of Corporal Punishment

Pei-Chun Lin and ShaoYun Huang

10. Indigenous Health in Taiwan: The More-Than-Human Potential of Human Rights through and beyond Cultural Safety

Po-Han Lee

Part III: State Institutions and the Realization of Human Rights

11. Education and Transitional Justice in Taiwan

Yang-Huan Li

12. Solidarity with Vulnerable Workers in Taiwan: Toward a Resilient Social Protection System

Nai-Yi Sun

13. Decades of Struggles to End the Death Penalty in Taiwan

Hsin-Yi Lin

Biography

Yi-Chun Chou is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Soochow University, Taiwan, and serves as the President of the Taiwan Sociological Association.

Mab Huang is a Liberal Arts Chair Professor at Soochow University, Taiwan, and is the founder of the Chang Fo-Chuan Center for the Study of Human Rights.