Agenda (English)

Venue: Tsai Lecture Hall, College of Law,National Taiwan University 
host:   ;  Group for Promotion and Protectionof Human Rights, Executive Yuan Ministry of Justice
organizer: Soochow University (Chang Fo-Chuan Center for Human Rights
 Department Of Political Science, Soochow University) 
co-organizer: Chiang Education Foundation  

Thursday, December 8, 2011
08:30-09:00	Registration
09:00-09:20	Opening Remark
Panel I Moderator：Hwei-Syin Chen (Professor, College of Law, National Chengchi University & Member of Presidential Consultative Committee on Human Rights)
09:20-10:20	Speaker：ANDO Nisuke (Professor of International Law, Kyoto University & Former Chairman, Human Rights Committee, Japan) Title: The Purpose and Procedure of Human Rights Committee's Consideration of National reports of Member States -through my 20-year Experience as a Committee Member
10:20-10:40	Coffee break
Panel II：The Two Human Rights Covenants and the General Comments Moderator：Der-Chin Horng (Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
10:40-12:00	Presenters： Wen-Chen Chang (Associate Professor, College of Law, National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Yung-Cheng Kao (Lawyer & Convener, Human Rights Covenants Watch, Taiwan) Discussants： Meng-Chang Yao (Assistant Professor, Graduate Department of Law, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan) Edmund Bon (Human rights Lawyer, Malaysia)
12:00-13:00	Lunch
Panel III Moderator: Shiow-Duan Hawang (Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science & Director, Chang Fo-Chuan Center for the Study of Human Rights, Soochow University, Taipei)
13:00-14:00	Speaker：Margaret Ann Bedggood (Honorary Professor of Law, University of Waikato & Former Chair, New Zealand Human Rights Commission, New Zealand) Title：Progress and Politics in the Achieving of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
14:00-14:20	Coffee break
Panel IV：Education and Training of Government Officials on the Two Human Rights Covenants Moderator: Mei-Nu Yu (Chairperson of Taipei Bar Association & Founding President, National Alliance of Taiwan Women’s Associations, Taiwan)
14:20-15:40	Presenters: Chun-Hung Chen (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Soochow University, Taipei) Chia-Fan Lin (Associate Professor, Department of Civic Education and Leadership, National Normal University & Director, Taiwan Association for Human Rights) Discussants： Jefferson Plantilla (Chief Researcher, Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center (HURIGHTS OSAKA)) Ming-Tang Chen (Vice Minister, Ministry of Justice)
15:40-16:00	Coffee break
Panel V: The Two Human Rights Covenants and Institutional Arrangements for Implementation Moderator: Cheng-Hung Lin (Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Soochow University, Taipei)
16:00-17:20	Presenters: Fu-Te Liao (Associates Research Professor, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Chien-Feng Wei (Lawyer & Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Law, Soochow University, Taipei) Discussants: James Seymour (Adjunct Associate Professor, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies & Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Universities Service Centre for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong) Yuan-Hao Liao (Associate Professor, College of Law, National Chengchi University & Member of Presidential Consultative Committee on Human Rights)

Friday, December 9, 2011
08:40-09:10	Registration
Panel VI Moderator: Nien-Tsu Li (Partner Lawyer, Lee And Li Attorneys-At-Law & Member of Presidential Consultative Committee on Human Rights)
09:10-10:10	Speaker：Theodoor Cornelis van Boven (Professor of Law, University of Maastricht & Formal Special Rapporteur on Torture of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Netherlands) Title：The Implementation of International Human Rights Law in Domestic Courts: Potentials and Prospects
10:10-10:30	Coffee break
Panel VII:  Protection and Implementation of Human Rights: the NGOs Perspective Moderator:Chung-Hwa Ku ( Professor, Department of Sociology, National ChenChi University)
10:30-12:00	Presenters: Song-Lih Huang (Professor, Institution of Public Health and Department of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei & Secretary-General, Taiwan International Medical Alliance) Feng-Cheng Lin (Chief-Executive, Judicial Reform Foundation, Taiwan) Hsinyi Lin (Executive Director, Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty) Discussants: Jau-Hwa Chen (Professor, Department of Philosophy, Soochow University &  Broad of Directors Taiwanese Feminist Scholars Association) Yu-Lien Sun (Secretary-General, Taiwan Labor Front)
12:00-13:10	Lunch
Panel VIII Moderator: Yeong-Chin Su （Vice President of Judicial Yuan & The Honorable Justice& Member of Presidential Consultative Committee on Human Rights）
13:10-14:10	Speaker: Allan Rock (President, University of Ottawa) Title:The Responsibility to Protect
14:10-14:30	Coffee Break
Panel IX Moderator:Yiu-Chen Su (Lawyer & Director, Chinese Association for Human Rights, Taiwan)
14:10-15:30	Speaker: Kyong-Whan Ahn (Former Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission of Korea & Professor, School of Law, Seoul National University, Korea) Title：The National Human Rights Commission: A Decade of Glories and Despairs (2001-2011)
15:30-15:50	Coffee Break
Panel：X Roundtable Moderator: Mab Huang (Joseph K. Twanmoh Chair Professor, Soochow University, Taipei & Member of Presidential Consultative Committee on Human Rights)
15:50-17:20	Discussants： ANDO Nisuke (Professor of International Law, Kyoto University & Former Chairman, Human Rights Committee, Japan) Margaret Ann Bedggood (Honorary Professor of Law, University of Waikato & Former Chair, New Zealand Human Rights Commission, New Zealand) TheodoorCornelis van Boven (Professor of Law, University of Maastricht & Formal Special Rapporteur on Torture of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Netherlands) Kyong-WhanAhn (Former Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission of Korea & Professor, School of Law, Seoul National University, Korea)
Closing Remark