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Asia Democracy And Human Rights Award
Since 2006, the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD; ) is a non-profit organisation headquartered in Taipei. Originally initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, the foundation's purpose is to promote democracy around the world ... confers the Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award on an individual or organization which has made major contributions through peaceful means to the development of democracy and human rights in Asia. Every year the award is conferred in December in Taipei during a special ceremony. Winners References {{award-stub Human rights awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwan Foundation For Democracy
The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD; ) is a non-profit organisation headquartered in Taipei. Originally initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, the foundation's purpose is to promote democracy around the world. The Foundation was established in June 2003 as a non-partisan, non-profit organization. The foundation was one of the largest donors to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, donating US$1 million towards the construction of the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, DC. On 9 November 2009 the TFD unveiled a segment of the Berlin Wall to remark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall as a symbol for the quest for global democracy. Organizational structure * Secretariat * Research and Development Department * International Cooperation Department * Domestic Affairs Department * Asia-Pacific Democracy Resource Center Programs * World Forum for Democratization in Asia (WFDA) * Asia Democracy and Human Rights Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free North Korea Radio
The Free North Korea Radio () is an independent radio broadcaster based in Seoul, South Korea. The station is run primarily by North Korean refugees and defectors and frequently broadcasts short-wave transmissions of news and information to the general population inside North Korea. The radio was established by Kim Seong-min, a former North Korean military monitor for foreign broadcasts, who was influenced by the foreign broadcasts that he monitored and defected from North Korea in 1996. Free North Korea Radio has received an award from Reporters Without Borders in acknowledgement of its efforts. Free North Korea Radio started broadcasting from Seoul in 2004. It is a project of the Defense Forum Foundation, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization. Threats Free North Korea Radio staff have been assaulted repeatedly by South Korean extremist groups who support the North Korean regime or fear the destabilizing effect of their broadcasts. Radio staff had to relocate to the outskirts of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD)
The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) is an international human rights organization which focuses on the issue of forced disappearance in Asia. AFAD was founded on 4 June 1998 in Manila, Philippines. The federation was awarded the Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award in 2016. Members According to the 2018 Annual report of AFAD, 13 organizations and one individual member are part of the federation. * Advocacy Forum (Nepal) * Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (Jammu and Kashmir, India) * Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (South Korea) * Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Indonesia) * Conflict Victims' Society for Justice (Nepal) * Defence of Human Rights (Pakistan) * Families of the Disappeared (Sri Lanka) * Families of Victims of Involuntary Disappearance (Philippines) * Free Jonas Burgos Movement (Philippines) * Association of Families of the Disappeared (Indonesia) * Justice for Peace Foundation (Thailand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Focus Taiwan
The Central News Agency (CNA) is a government-controlled news agency in Taiwan. In addition to its Chinese language edition, it also has English and Japanese editions. It has a 300-strong employee base, and overseas branches in some 30 countries. It works with a number of well-known news agencies around the world, such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Deutsche Welle, and Agence France-Presse. History The agency was founded , by the Kuomintang. Its headquarters was originally located in Guangzhou in Guangdong, but had to be relocated to Taipei in 1949, following the defeat of the Republic of China government in mainland China in the Chinese Civil War. Despite the corporatisation of the agency in 1973, it continued to receive heavy government subsidies, and remained the nation's official agency. At the time, CNA journalists received preferential treatment on various occasions, mostly government-related press conferences. After democratization, on 1 July 1996, the agency becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Human Rights Group
The Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) is a grassroots Karen-led human rights organisation, established in Karen State during 1992 and it is now operating across rural southeast Burma/Myanmar. With over twenty years of experience. KHRG is recognised internationally as an authority on major issues such as internal displacement, forced labour, landmines, conflict and land confiscation in southeast Burma/Myanmar. KHRG works directly with "rural villagers who are suffering abuses such as forced labor, systematic destruction of villagers and crops, forced relocations, extortion, looting, arbitrary detention, torture, sexual assault and summary executions." Most of these abuses were committed by soldiers and officials of the State Peace & Development Council (SPDC), Burma's previous ruling military junta. The organisation's goal is to support villagers in rural Burma, by helping them develop strategies to resist abuse and by translating their testimonies for worldwide distribution, acco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ECPAT
ECPAT International is a global network of civil society organisations that works to end the sexual exploitation of children. It focuses on ending the online sexual exploitation of children, the trafficking of children for sexual purposes, the sexula exploitation of children in prostitution, child, early and forced marriages, and the sexual exploitation of children in the travel and tourism industry. The ECPAT International network consists of 122 member organisations in 104 countries. Its secretariat is based in Bangkok, Thailand, providing technical support to member groups, coordinating research, and managing international advocacy campaigns. History In 1990, researchers and activists helped to establish ECPAT (an acronym for End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism) as a three-year campaign to end "sex tourism," with an initial focus on Asia. As the terms "child prostitution" and "sex tourism" are no longer used in the sector, today the organization goes by its initials ECPAT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tecro USA
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO), also known as Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO), Taipei Representative Office (TRO) or Taipei Mission, is an alternative diplomatic institution serving as a ''de facto'' embassy or a consulate of the Republic of China (ROC, commonly referred to as Taiwan) to exercise the foreign affairs and consular services in specific countries which have established formal diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC, commonly referred to as China). As the PRC and ROC both deny the legitimacy of each other as a sovereign state and claims control over all of China, an exclusive mandate namely One-China policy, mandates any country that wishes to establish a diplomatic relationship with either the PRC or ROC must first sever any formal relationship with the other. According to ''The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs'', "non-recognition of the Taiwanese government is a prerequisite for conducting formal dipl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boat People SOS
Boat People SOS (BPSOS) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization devoted to Vietnamese-American civic and political activism. It is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. BPSOS' mission is to "empower, organize, and equip Vietnamese individuals and communities in their pursuit of liberty and dignity." BPSOS claims that one in 10 Vietnamese Americans has received assistance from BPSOS while still in Vietnam, on the high seas, in a refugee camp, or after arriving in the United States. Through their 17 office locations in the U.S. and two office locations in Southeast Asia, they provide a web of services to support individuals, families, and communities. BPSOS has experienced significant growth and positive media, especially with Pamela Constable's article in ''The Washington Post'' on 2008 October 21. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rescue Foundation
Triveni Acharya is an Indian journalist and activist living in Mumbai, best known for her work with the anti-sex-trafficking group the ''Rescue Foundation''. The group was founded by her husband, Balkrishna Acharya, but Triveni Acharya assumed its presidency following his death in a car accident in 2005. The organization is devoted to the "rescue, rehabilitation and repatriation of victims for human trafficking from different parts of India, Nepal & Bangladesh and sold for forced prostitution", and has been conducting "brothel raids" since 1993. The organization frees roughly 300 girls a year, and also provides counseling, job training, and HIV testing. Because these raids often result in serious financial loss or imprisonment for sex traffickers, Acharya has received several death threats as the result of her work. The Rescue Foundation has received several national and international awards for its work under Acharya's presidency. In 2004, the acharya received Jhansi Ki Rani L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Seong-min (journalist)
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Kim Seong-min is the common English spelling of a Korean name also spelled Kim Sung-min. It may refer to: *Kim Sung-min (actor) (1973–2016), South Korean actor * Kim Sung-min (footballer, born 1981), South Korean footballer *Kim Sung-min (footballer, born 1985), South Korean footballer *Kim Sung-min (judoka) (born 1987), South Korean ''judoka'' * Kim Sung-min (volleyball), South Korean volleyball player *Kim Seong-min (defector), North Korean defector who founded Free North Korea Radio * Kim Seong-min (field hockey), participant in 1999 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy * Kim Seong-min (model), winner of 2012 Miss World Korea Miss Queen Korea ( ko, 미스 퀸 코리아) is a national beauty pageant responsible for selecting South Korea's representative to the Miss Universe and Miss World pageant. History * In 1957 the first Miss Korea competition took place in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taipei Times
The ''Taipei Times'' is the only printed daily English-language newspaper in Taiwan, and the third established there. Online competitors include the state-owned ''Focus Taiwan'' and ''Taiwan News''; ''The China Post'' was formerly a competitor but today is mostly non-operational. Established on 15 June 1999, the ''Taipei Times'' is published by the Liberty Times Group, which also publishes a Chinese-language newspaper, the '' Liberty Times'', Taiwan's biggest newspaper by circulation, with a pro– Taiwan independence editorial line. On 15 May 2017, ''The China Post ''The China Post'' () was an English-language newspapers published in Taiwan (officially the Republic of China), alongside the ''Taipei Times The ''Taipei Times'' is the only printed daily English-language newspaper in Taiwan, and the thi ...'' was the ''Times''s last English-language competitor to go out of print and the ''Taipei Times'' is consequently offered at most points of sale, hotels and librar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuhada Organization
''Shaheed'' ( , , ; pa, ਸ਼ਹੀਦ) denotes a martyr in Islam. The word is used frequently in the Quran in the generic sense of "witness" but only once in the sense of "martyr" (i.e. one who dies for his faith); the latter sense acquires wider usage in the ''hadith''. The term is commonly used as a posthumous title for those who are considered to have accepted or even consciously sought out their own death in order to bear witness to their beliefs. Like the English-language word ''martyr'', in the 20th century, the word ''shahid'' came to have both religious and non-religious connotations, and has often been used to describe those who died for non-religious ideological causes. This suggests that there is no single fixed and immutable concept of martyrdom among Muslims and Sikhs. It is also used in Sikhism. Etymology In Arabic, the word ''shahid'' means "witness". Its development closely parallels that of the Greek word ''martys'' ( gr, μάρτυ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
