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01Jun.
2021

Internship Reflection | Without a Legal Background, I Still Found Ways to Contribute to Issues I Care About

Student Lin / Waldorf High School, JRF Intern

I had just graduated from high school and was taking a gap year. Although I had no legal background, I was interested…

31May.
2021

Joint Statement | In Extraordinary Times, No One Can Be Left Behind - Civil-Society Appeal for Juvenile Correctional Institutions During COVID-19

Huan-Pen Education Foundation, Taiwan Association for Human Rights, Taiwan Association for Children's and Adolescents' Rights, Covenant Watch, Judicial Reform Foundation, Prison Watch

During Taiwan's 2021 Level 3 COVID-19 restrictions, civil-society organizations called on the Ministry of Justice and…

31May.
2021

Op-Ed | Rethinking Juvenile Correctional Education: From Fragmented Services to an Integrated Approach

Lin Wei-Ting / Project Researcher, Judicial Reform Foundation

Adapted from a 2017 policy forum, this article compares Taiwan's juvenile correctional education with U.S. approaches…

20May.
2021

President Tsai Ing-Wen Should Seriously Consider Pardoning Chiou Ho-shun - Statement Following the President's First Exercise of the Pardon Power

Chiou Ho-shun Pardon Support Group

After President Tsai granted her first pardon to Indigenous hunter Talum Suqluman, organizations supporting Chiou…

19May.
2021

Who Made the Evidence Lie?

Hsiao I-Min / Assistant to the Su Case Pro Bono Defense Legal Team

Originally published in 2011 and republished in 2021, this op-ed revisits forensic failures exposed by the wrongful…

18May.
2021

MOJ's Hit-and-Run Amendment Turns the Law Back Twenty Years

Lü Cheng-Yen / Attorney and Legislative Researcher, Judicial Reform Foundation

An op-ed criticizes the Ministry of Justice's proposed amendment to Criminal Code Article 185-4 for allowing punishment…

13May.
2021

(Event Cancelled) Court Observation | Evidentiary Hearing on the Retrial Petition in the Chiu Sung-Cheng Case

Judicial Reform Foundation

JRF invites court observers to follow the Chiu Sung-Cheng case after the Supreme Court vacated a ruling denying…

12May.
2021

Protecting Life and Road Safety: Reform of the Hit-and-Run Offense Cannot Wait!

Judicial Reform Foundation

With the two-year deadline from Judicial Yuan Interpretation No. 777 about to expire, JRF criticized the Ministry of…

11May.
2021

Workshop | Become a Key Reader of External Inspection Reports for Correctional Institutions

Judicial Reform Foundation

JRF is recruiting participants to read and discuss the first external inspection reports issued under the amended…