Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition helps explain the injustice inflicted for three decades on Tai Ji Men.
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No Social Justice Without Freedom of Belief: State Recognition, Registration, and the Tai Ji Men Case
Registration systems are a way of limiting religious liberty. Unjust taxes are another.
Of Gorillas, Corruption, and Tai Ji Men
Social justice cannot be separated from ecology and from freedom of religion or belief. It was the lesson of Dian Fossey. It is the lesson of Tai Ji Men.
Tai Ji Men Returns to Geneva: A Familiar Shadow Is Back at the UN Human Rights Council
The twelfth United Nations submission on the Tai Ji Men case confirms Taiwan’s problems with the Two Human Rights Covenants.
In the Shadow of the ICCPR: Taiwan’s Struggle With Its Own Machinery
A sweeping report reveals how rights guaranteed on paper falter under administrative habits, as the Tai Ji Men case demonstrates.
America’s Maduro Operation and China’s Aksu Cave Operation: A Uyghur View
Can China capture Taiwan’s President as the U.S. did with Maduro? Maybe not, judging from Beijing’s “anti-terrorism” operation of 2015 in the Uyghur region.
Tai Ji Men Needs the ROC’s Respect for the Rule of Law
Judicial Day embodies the very meaning of democracy. Why, then, does Taiwan choose to erode democracy on a global scale by persisting in its unfair treatment of Tai Ji Men?
Justice Delayed After Justice Declared
Judicial Day reminds us that justice is not a one-time act but a process that requires coherence, institutional courage, and a willingness to repair the harm done.
Butterfly, Judicial Day, and the Tai Ji Men Case
Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” alludes to the Inequal Treaties in Japan. Judicial Day in Taiwan commemorates the end of similar treaties in China. It is also an opportunity to call for justice for Tai Ji Men.
Chinese Propaganda Weaponizes Taiwan’s World War II Comfort Women
Beijing’s state TV deceived Taipei’s Ama Museum to produce a “documentary” that is a sermon against Japan’s and Taiwan’s present governments.