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Our Efforts and Transformation
empowerment of the community aimed at
territories and the modern living perimeters of
quality of life. Moreover, this project paid
in the living environment of local ethnic groups
changing the living conditions and improving
attention to local talents’ capacity to access
national human rights resources and their right
to information as stipulated in the Freedom of
Government Information Law. Participants of
this workshop included 42 senior high school
students and 15 undergraduate students. They
were requested to prepare a work in advance.
Their works were required to be based on their
actual experiences concerning human rights.
The topics of their works were the eight related
human rights issues set by the NHRC, which
can be derived from real-life observations and
records, book reviews, comments on social
events, personal interviews, etc. The works
could be done in the form of poetry, prose,
essay, flash fiction, and multimedia.
iii. The NCKU organized the “Ethnic Culture
and Human Rights Issue Workshop: From
Ljungkiaw to Hengchun—A reflection through
the time-space of ethnic history.” Based on
the tradition, culture, and historic view of
the Paiwan people, through retrospection,
and develop a model to investigate land and
ethnic group issues, which include: regional
and spatial shift; the interaction, rises, and
declines of ethnic groups in history; and
human rights involved in the previous two
issues.
iv. The NDHU organized the Indigenous Human
Rights Education Workshop. The concerned
party Mr. Tama Talum (Chinese name: Wang
Guang-lu) of the J. Y. Interpretation No. 803
(Aboriginal Hunting Case) was invited to spell
out the conflicts between the Interpretation
and indigenous traditions. Participants
also visited the Cikasuwan community. All
participants were postgraduate students who
participated in the seminar-like workshop to
discuss with experts, scholars, lawyers, and
the concerned party, rethink how to protect
the rights and care about the daily-life issues
of indigenous peoples from the legal point of
view.
fieldwork study, listening, and dialogue,
participants discerned the spatial and land
d. Human Rights Promotion to the General
Public
control and changes in domination contained
in Hengchun and the loss of power, culture,
To exercise the powers bestowed under Article
and subjectivity of indigenous peoples in the
2, paragraph 7 of the Organic Act, we promote
the protection of human rights in collaboration
process. Participants included nine senior
high school students, nine undergraduate
students, eight graduate students, and two
citizens, who concerned themselves a lot in
ethnic culture, land justice, and many other
contemporary issues of indigenous peoples.
Through fieldwork study and experiences
sharing with local senior citizens and Paiwan
people, participants investigated the ancient
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Paiwan people so as to figure out the changes
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with domestic agencies, schools, civil groups,
international organizations, NHRIs, and NGOs.
In April 2022 we established the “Standard
Operating Procedures for Handling Matters
relating to Human Rights Protection and
Promotion between the NHRC and Agencies and
NGOs” to define the criteria for assessment of
projects and partners. Between August 1, 2021
and December 31, 2022, our partners included