Ma Ying-jeou

2012-04-23 IPS

Analysis by Dennis Engbarth

The first official national human rights report issued by Taiwan’s rightist Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang or KMT) government disappointed civil society and human rights advocates, who have described the document as "an empty shell" and "insincere".

2012-04-21 Taipei Times

By Mo Yan-chih  /  Staff Reporter

President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday said his administration would reduce the use of the death penalty as part of efforts to protect human rights, and promised to seek public consensus on the issue to move toward the abolition of capital punishment.