The Chang Fo-Chuan Center was founded in 2000. From then onwards, the center has organized lectures, conferences, and seminars to facilitate exchanges among human rights scholars, legal experts and activists.
The Center set up a human rights program at undergraduate level in 2004 to provide training for human rights advocates. Designed for students from diverse disciplines and backgrounds, this program not only offered an interdisciplinary approach to human rights but also collaborated with organizations that had developed strategies and tactics for human rights activism.
The Center is one of the founding members of International Human Rights Education (IHRE) Consortium, a group of academics who organized modules on human rights at their respective universities in Australia, South Africa, Taiwan, the US, Poland and the Netherlands.
In 2013, the center hosted 4th International Conference on Human Rights Education: Global Convergence and Local Practice with the participation of over a hundred rights experts. Between 16 November 2015 and 18 November 2015, the center organized an International Conference on Human Rights: Human Rights, Museum and Civic Culture, with rights experts and academics.
In 2016, Professor Jau-hwa Chen, who was then appointed as Center Director in 2017, attended the 4th SEAHRN International Conference on Human Rights and Peace in Southeast Asia.
In 2017, the center explored possible areas of collaboration with the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) and with Human Rights at Arizona State University, a pan-campus human rights initiative. The center also invited Enver Tohti Bughda, a Chinese exile, over to talk about ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities in Xinjiang. The center subsequently invited Xi Xi, a transgender writer from Hong Kong to discuss transgender rights in Hong Kong.
In March 2018, the Center teamed up with European Economic and Trade Office, German Institute Taipei, British Office Taipei, Covenants Watch, and Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, for a series of lectures on judicial reform. Among the speakers was Professor Heinrich Amadeus Wolff, exploring the interrelationship between security policy and human rights.
The center applied to accede to the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) early this year, whose institutional members were European and American institutions with the only exception of Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. The center’s membership application was accepted in September 2018.
For more information, please visit http://www.hrp.scu.edu.tw/welcome
The Center set up a human rights program at undergraduate level in 2004 to provide training for human rights advocates. Designed for students from diverse disciplines and backgrounds, this program not only offered an interdisciplinary approach to human rights but also collaborated with organizations that had developed strategies and tactics for human rights activism.
The Center is one of the founding members of International Human Rights Education (IHRE) Consortium, a group of academics who organized modules on human rights at their respective universities in Australia, South Africa, Taiwan, the US, Poland and the Netherlands.
In 2013, the center hosted 4th International Conference on Human Rights Education: Global Convergence and Local Practice with the participation of over a hundred rights experts. Between 16 November 2015 and 18 November 2015, the center organized an International Conference on Human Rights: Human Rights, Museum and Civic Culture, with rights experts and academics.
In 2016, Professor Jau-hwa Chen, who was then appointed as Center Director in 2017, attended the 4th SEAHRN International Conference on Human Rights and Peace in Southeast Asia.
In 2017, the center explored possible areas of collaboration with the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) and with Human Rights at Arizona State University, a pan-campus human rights initiative. The center also invited Enver Tohti Bughda, a Chinese exile, over to talk about ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities in Xinjiang. The center subsequently invited Xi Xi, a transgender writer from Hong Kong to discuss transgender rights in Hong Kong.
In March 2018, the Center teamed up with European Economic and Trade Office, German Institute Taipei, British Office Taipei, Covenants Watch, and Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, for a series of lectures on judicial reform. Among the speakers was Professor Heinrich Amadeus Wolff, exploring the interrelationship between security policy and human rights.
The center applied to accede to the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) early this year, whose institutional members were European and American institutions with the only exception of Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. The center’s membership application was accepted in September 2018.
For more information, please visit http://www.hrp.scu.edu.tw/welcome