CEIAS is implementing a project dedicated to analyzing human rights in East Asia from a comparative perspective.
HUREA will focus on human rights in East Asia in the following human rights topics: death penalty, asylum, and female representation in politics. While HUREA will cover all East Asian countries, Taiwan will serve as a special case study. Taiwan’s case in these three human rights topics will be studied in more detail, and findings then applied (whenever possible) to the whole region. By researching the selected human rights issues from both a comparative as well as case study perspective, employing a mixed methods approach (advanced survey data analyses, documents and media analyses, and in-depth interviews) the research will contribute to the broader discussions on human rights in East Asia.
Donor: Funded by the EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia under the project No. 09I03-03-V04-00461
Duration: August 2024 – July 2026
Contact: Kristina Kironska (kironska@ceias.eu)
Articles and opinion pieces:
- Kironska, K., “Taiwan’s Attempts to Enact an Asylum Law: Navigating Politics, Public Opinion, and Human Rights,” Taiwan Human Rights Hub, 22 November 2024.
Academic articles:
- Findor, A., R. Hlatky, O. Buchel, M. Hruška, and K. Kironska, 2025, “Anti-Muslim Bias in Foreign Policy Attitudes: Experimental Evidence From Thirteen European Countries”, British Journal of Political Science 55(4).
Guest lectures in Slovakia:
- 20 November 2024 – Taiwan Studies Center Bratislava, Faculty of Management, Comenius University Bratislava, Human rights in Taiwan: What are the roadblocks in an otherwise progressive path?
- 5 December 2024 – Portuguese Studies, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava, Čínska prítomnosť v Mozambiku a jej vplyv na ľudské práva
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29 April 2025 – panel at the CEEasia Forum 2025, Civil society and media in Asia and Central Europe: shared values, common challenges
Conference presentations:
- 22 May 2025 – The 5th World Congress of Taiwan Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, The Role of Quotas in Transforming Women’s Political Participation in Taiwan
