International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

...since the legislature on March 31 ratified the Act Governing Execution of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (公民與政治權利國際公約及經濟社會文化權利國際公約施行法), Taiwan...

In this article: Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou, Taipei, and Germany

...Ma expressed the wish that the legislature would speedily approve the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to show the importance Taiwan attaches to...

In this article: Human Rights Day, Democracy, Taipei, Self-determination, Public Television Service, Chen Yunlin, Ma Ying-jeou, and UN

...would also give police the authority to break up any rally that blocked traffic. President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) last month urged the legislature to pass two UN covenants, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the...

In this article: Tsai Ing-wen, Democracy, Democratic Progressive Party, Ma Ying-jeou, UN, and Taiwan

...UN human rights declarations. Ma said the UN General Assembly adopted the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 1966, both of which were signed by the...

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...[(陳雲林) of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait] was here," he said. On March 31, at the request of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), the legislature ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the...

In this article: Ma Ying-jeou, Defendant, Democratic Progressive Party, Chen Yunlin, Tamkang University, and Nanhua University

...respect press freedom. Earlier this month, Ma signed two UN covenants - the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - which he described as marking a...

In this article: Chen Shui-bian, Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou, Dalai Lama, Defendant, UN, and Democracy

...health, equality before the law and freedom from inhuman or degrading treatment. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights guarantees the right to adequate housing, including the prohibition of forced evictions,...

In this article: Leprosy, Equality before the law, Ma Ying-jeou, Sinjhuang City, and Taiwan