{"id":12352,"date":"2019-10-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/ict-visits-taiwan-for-fidh-40th-congress\/"},"modified":"2019-10-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T22:00:00","slug":"ict-visits-taiwan-for-fidh-40th-congress","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/ict-visits-taiwan-for-fidh-40th-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"ICT visits Taiwan for FIDH 40th Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Vincent Metten, EU Policy Director of the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), participated this week in the International Federation for Human Rights\u2019 (FIDH) 40th Congress in Taipei. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
More than 400 rights advocates, government officials and experts from\n 192 non-governmental organizations, including ICT\u2014which became a full \nmember of FIDH in 2010\u2014attended the five-day congress, Oct. 21-25, 2019.\n This year\u2019s theme was \u201cOur Right, Our Fight, Our Future \u2013 Reclaiming \nthe Universality of Human Rights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Said Metten: \u201cFIDH Congress is an excellent event to network and \nexchange views and find common ground with other human rights \norganizations, in particular with Asian leagues. The fact that Taiwan, a\n vibrant democracy, was chosen to host this year\u2019s congress highlights \nFIDH\u2019s focus on the human rights situation in the region and in China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The opening ceremony was attended by Taiwanese President Tsai \nIng-wen, who said the government is committed to improving human rights \nprotection in a wide range of areas. Several resolutions were adopted \nduring the congress, including one supporting Hong Kongers\u2019 protests \ncalling for government accountability and political reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FIDH member organizations elected their new president, Botswana \nactivist Alice Mogwe, who will lead the federation for the next three \nyears, ushering in its 100th anniversary in 2022. Mogwe said, \u201cThe \nuniversality of human rights is under attack, we must fight back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the margins of the congress, Metten met with Representative of His\n Holiness the Dalai Lama Dawa Tsering, as well as with Tashi Tsering and\n Lin Hsinyi of the Human Rights Network for Tibet and Taiwan and with \nthe President of the Tibetan community in Taiwan, Tenzin Namda, and some\n members of the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Oct. 23, Professor Mumin Chen organized a discussion at Chung \nHsing University in Taichung on \u201cTibet-China Relations: History, Current\n Situation and Prospects\u201d as part of the ethnic conflict and state \ncohesion training. Metten and Lau Hon-Shiang, a research scholar of \nChinese history, were invited as speakers. The students from Taiwan and \nother Asian countries asked pertinent questions and allowed a frank and \nconstructive discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meeting of FIDH Asia leagues members, Taipei, Taiwan, on Oct. 25, 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Vincent Metten, EU Policy Director of the International Campaign for Tibet, participated this week in the International Federation for Human Rights\u2019 (FIDH) 40th Congress in Taipei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12353,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categorie":[691],"news_tag":[],"class_list":["post-12352","nieuws","type-nieuws","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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