President of the UN/NGO Association of World Citizens (AWC),
Rene Wadlow, Arrives at Taiwan the Day before Human Rights Day
to Begin His Trip to Observe Taiwan’s Human Rights

 

The Human Rights Day on December 10 is coming soon. This year is the third year that the two international human rights covenants come into force in Taiwan. Many plans are proposed and actions are taken actively by both the government and civilian organizations, whose activities aim at promoting Taiwan’s human rights in order to meeting international standards. Following the publication of Taiwan’s human right report, Taiwan’s government will invite international human rights experts to Taiwan to exam Taiwan’s human rights. On November 23, the Human Rights Promoting Committee of the Legislation Yuan was officially established to investigate the results and status of the implementation of the two international human rights covenants. Rooting deeply in every corner of Taiwan, NGOs both within Taiwan and from abroad have also been speaking up actively. Among which, the President of UN/NGO AWC (AWC is an international peace organization with consultative status with UN ECOSOC), Mr. Rene Wadlow, has arrived at Taiwan on December 5 to begin his ten-day trip of observation of Taiwan’s human rights.

 

President of the UN/NGO AWC, Mr. Rene Wadlow, arrives at Taiwan the day before Human Rights Day to begin his trip to observe Taiwan’s human rights.

　　

On December 10 of the 2012 Human Rights Day, the President of UN/NGO AWC, Mr. Rene Wadlow, will attend the round table forum of “The Examination of Taiwan’s Implementation of the Two International Human Rights Covenants” to deliver a keynote speech. The forum will be held at the 10th floor International Meeting Hall of the Grand Hotel. Mr. Rene Wadlow, who has long been paying very close attention to subjects of human rights, will also visit government officials, scholars, and human rights organizations so that he can understand the current status of Taiwan’s human rights in depth.

 

The President of UN/NGO AWC, Mr. Rene Wadlow, pointed out that Taiwan's pondering of the UN's two human rights covenants represents a positive force for respecting human rights in Asia . He affirmatively endorses the new subject that Taiwan proposed about the connection between human rights and taxation. In recent years, the UN/NGO AWC has been noticing the sudden increase of the number of taxation human right cases, which is an obvious violation of the two international human rights covenants. Thus, AWC has filed a petition to the UN through the UN's 1503 procedure, in which, the injustice of Tai Ji Men taxation that is ranked the top-ten most noticeable events in the “White Paper of One Hundred Years of Human Rights in Taiwan” was taken as a representative case. Just as a beginning, when more and more NGOs and scholars of laws notice the importance of the taxation human rights, injustices from other countries will also be noticed and governments be demanded for improvements.

 

Mr. Rene Wadlow is the editor of the Journal of World Politics and Social Issues On-Line; he had been the professor and d irector of the Research of the Graduate Institute of Development Studies, University of Geneva; he also had been the counselor for the Education Departments of Gabon and other African nations to help establish projects for adult education, especially the training of the public servants. Mr. Rene Wadlow also acts a representative to the UN for the international peace organizations associated with the UN, and he is active o­n issues of conflict resolution and disarmament, especially in the regions of Middle America and Sri Lanka . He is also the editor and scholar committee member of the “African Geneva”, “International Development Forum”, “Human Rights Periodicals”, and “World Education Magzine”.

 

The UN/NGO AWC was founded in 1975 as an international peace organization. It is a nongovernment organization of the UN, which cooperates with the UN/DPI and is with consultative status with UN ECOSOC. Its head quarter is in San Francisco , California of the United States . Its purpose and ideas are to establish a socially and economically justice and peaceful earth village in the 21 st century.

 

The UN/NGO AWC has held more than ten times of the World Citizens Assembly. Among which, two of the resolutions passed in the assembly, the resolution of “Stopping Arm Races”, after being endorsed by 51 Nobel Peace Prize Laurels, was endorsed by the UN in its special forum on ending arm races. One article of the resolutions was extensively declared by the UN and was displayed at the entrance to the UN's General Assembly. In the year 2001, the World Citizen Assembly was held in the Grand Hotel in Taipei , Taiwan . Representatives from more than 51 nations joined together. This event was reported in the web site of the UN to show the ideas and actions that AWC had made to promote world peace.