Let me close on a positive note. For better or worse TAHR has been and remains Taiwan's strongest advocate for human rights. TAHR is clearly the leading domestic human rights NGO. Some of the finest people I have met in Taiwan I have met through their work with TAHR. Like any NGO they face pressures and struggle to survive. As a result of these pressures they sometimes lack a focus, lack a direction and have to "be all things to all people." Be that as it may, their Top 10 "human rights" events are a strange brew of sense and nonsense.
Brian Kennedy is an attorney who writes and teaches on criminal justice and human rights issues.
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