Personal Reflections on the Taiwan Human Rights Review Process

Manfred Nowak ()
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Manfred Nowak: University of Vienna

Chapter Chapter 18 in Taiwan and International Human Rights, 2019, pp 321-327 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The author was requested by the government of Taiwan to lead a group of highly distinguished international human rights experts entrusted with the task of reviewing Taiwan’s compliance with the rights enshrined in the International Human Rights Covenants (ICESCR and ICCPR). This chapter contains some personal reflections by the author on the review proceedings in 2013 and 2017. Particular emphasis focuses on the need to abolish the death penalty.

Keywords: Death penalty; International human rights; State reporting procedure; UN covenants on human rights; United Nations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-0350-0_18

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