WHRCF2014
May 16 2014
Kimdaejung Convention Center
Special Session
「Kaohsiung, Taiwan : A Human Rights City - An Overview of Human Rights Education for Teenagers in Kaohsiung」
- Li Chiung SU
2. ▫ Building Foundation:Kaohsiung’s Strategy to Build a Human
Rights City.
▫ Deepening Awareness:Human Rights Education for Teenagers.
▫ Listening to Our Citizens : Put Civil Rights into Practice-1999
Citizen Hotline.
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4. ▫ Established on 9th January, 2009.
▫ 17 Committee members.
▫ Mayor as the Chairperson and Deputy Mayor as the
Deputy Chairperson.
▫ Help policy-making
and increase public
Awareness.
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5. ▫ Established in 2009.
▫ Located in subway station “Formosa Boulevard Station”
▫ A venue for campaigns for human rights.
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6. Identify 27 sites where human rights incidents
once occurred to bring attention to four human rights issues
Focused Issue of the Site
Number of Sites
in the City
Example
Persecution of Human
Rights
15 228 Memorial Park
Labor Rights 3
Female Labors
Memorial Park
Environmental Protection 4 Siaolin Monument
Human Rights Archives 5
Kaohsiung Museum of
History
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7. • Female Labors Memorial
Park:
• to commemorate 25
female labors killed in a
ferry wreck.
• Siaolin Monument :
to commemorate
Siaolin villagers killed
by Typhoon Morakot.
http://www.tonyhuang39.com/tony0861/tony0861.html
http://www.peopo.org/news/83192
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9. Promoting Human Rights Education
Human Rights Works on Campus Human Rights Consultative Team
•Designate 3 schools as resource centers.
•Coordinate educational resources, train
seed teachers, and set up website.
•Advice teachers on human rights education.
•Design curriculum and teaching materials .
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10. Resource
Center
•Senior High School:Siaogang Senior High School
•Junior High School:Ling-Ya Junior High School
•Primary School Sin-Yi Primary School
What have
been done?
• Inspect human rights practices on campus
• Field trips to human rights historical sites
• Seminars for seed teachers
• A variety of competitions for students
• Launch campaigns on Human Rights Day
• Review legal achievement on human rights
• Modify regulations on campus
• Publish publications and set up website
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13. • Training for seed teachers
▫ Held seminars for more than 1000
teachers from 2010 to 2013, around
200 teachers were trained as seed
Teachers.
• Supports for teachers
▫ Consulting Services: served 500 teachers from 2011 to 2013
▫ Human Rights Workshops : anti-bullying teaching demonstration
and field trip
▫ Design a Human Rights Map
▫ Campaigns for Human Rights: 26 activities from 2011 to 2013
Promote anti-bullying by dramas
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14. • Strategic Alliance
• Coordinate teachers from Kaohsiung, Pingtung, Tainan,
Taitung, and Penghu.
Consultants from Human Rights Consultative Team
responded to teachers’ inquiries and help promote human
rights awareness
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15. • Comics competition
• Field trips to human rights historical sites: 700 students
participated each year.
• Anti-discrimination, anti-bullying, anti-doping campaigns:
404 events held for primary schools; 142 for junior high
schools; 99 for senior high schools.
Field trip to a human rights site-Ciaotou
Sugar Refinery
Promote human rights awareness through dramas
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16. • Evaluate human rights practices on campus: evaluate
safety measures, complaint filing system, and treatment
to students
• Review regulations on campus: All regulations need to
abide by International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights (ICCPR) and International Covenant on
Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
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17. • Set up website: access to Human Rights Declaration,
teaching tutorials, films, and recommended websites
• Publications: DVD,
handbooks, folders
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18. • First toll-free 24-hours citizen hotline service in Taiwan
• Allow citizens to file compliant or contribute feedback anytime。
• 29 employees, more than 31% are
with physical challenges (6 people with physical disabilities, 2 people lose
functions of primary organs, 1 person with facial disfigurement, 5 people with
visual impairment, and 1 person who is multi-disabled)
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