A Year of Human Rights Covenants: Great Leap for Taiwan
National Human Rights Commission, Taiwan
at the same time in terms of the geothermal
resources in Jinshan and Wanli. Participants
included 6 senior high school students, 30
undergraduate students, and 2 graduate
students. All of them concerned themselves
about issues relating to environmental human
rights. They visited the Taipower Second NPP,
Taipower Exhibit Center in Northern Taiwan,
and Zhongjiao Bay Fault to discern the local
industrial and environmental changes after
the NPP construction. With “Site Selection
for Nuclear Waste” as the topic of the roleplaying workshop, participants transformed
themselves into the NPP operator, experts
and scholars, and citizens living around
the candidate sites to figure out issues
about property right, right to housing, and
environmental human rights. After the public
hearing, group consultation, and proposal
▋ Discussion among NHRC employees at training and education.
presentation, they voted for the most suitable
site. Through this workshop, it was hoped
that students could experience the complete
policy-making process.
ii. The NCHU project “Reading Human Rights
and Writing Justice” focused on the close
relation between human rights education
and local community practices, and through
▋ Co-organized the “Lights and Shadows of Local Energy Politics: A Nuclear trip to the Northern Coast” under the Youth Human Rights
Education Empowerment and Promotion Plan with National Chengchi University.
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