Announcement
The Taiwan Project for Business and Human Rights [台灣企業人權方案] (“Taiwan Project”) is a special collaboration between Work Better Innovations and Professor Yu-Fan Chiu at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, School of Law, in Taiwan. It builds on WBI’s strong expertise and programming ties to the Asia Pacific and the labour focus of Prof Chiu’s research team.
In January 2024, Taiwan Project Researcher Wen-Chi Chang spoke at a public discussion on the issue of labour rights in the U.S. and Taiwan trade talks. We will be following on this work with policy briefs to come in Q1 2024 on the issues of Business and Human Rights (BHR) in Taiwan.
In Spring 2023, WBI Executive Director Dr Bonny Ling and Prof. Yu-Fan Chiu jointly taught a postgraduate course, “Corporate Responsibility and International Human Rights in Supply Chains [供應鏈企業責任與國際人權]” in Spring 2023. This course will start again in February 2024 with a new class of students from academia and industry.
The Taiwan Project follows from the aim of the class to increase knowledge on BHR and local capacity to address issues at this intersection for Taiwan.
The aims of the Taiwan Project are to:
- provide accurate and authoritative research on business and human rights in Taiwan;
- educate young scholars, corporate leaders and practitioners in Taiwan on responsible economic growth; and
- build the capacity needed to support business enterprises in Taiwan on human rights and environmental due diligence.
The BHR landscape for Taiwan is fast developing, with inputs from civil society, unions and workers, media, businesses and government. The Project is borne out of a hope that Taiwanese enterprises can put into practice the UNGPs, that Taiwan’s National Action Plan for Business and Human Rights can be revised to strengthen expectations on businesses and all stakeholders.
In 2021, Bonny commented on Taiwan’s National Action Plan, A “Journey Begins with a Single Step” and urged the government to go further. We are excited and honoured to be at this junction with many others in Taiwan, who are working on this road of corporate responsibility and human rights.
「台灣企業人權方案」 WBI與陽明交通大學合作新計劃
我們有幸與陽明交通大學邱羽凡教授及其團隊啟動亞太新計畫「台灣企業人權方案」，希望能共同耕耘企業與人權的研究和運用，逐步在台實踐《聯合國工商企業與人權指導原則》和人權盡責調查。
計畫重點之一，是我們的執行長凌怡華將和邱羽凡教授共同於陽明交通大學開設碩士課程《供應鏈企業責任與國際人權》，希望培養該領域的人才。
很開心能運用我們的專業，協助台灣推廣企業責任與人權。期待今年有機會在計畫活動上見到大家！
