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Formosan Association for Human Rights

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Formosan Association for Human Rights

Formosan Association for Human Rights (全美台灣人權協會) is listed as a group member of the |Taiwan Center Foundation of the Greater Los Angeles.

Identity Snapshot

  • Chinese: 全美台灣人權協會
  • English (as listed): Formosan Association for Human Rights
  • Relation: Taiwan Center group member (official listing)
  • Source: https://www.taiwancenter.org/group-members · taiwancenter-org-group-members.md

Role in the Community

  • Founding mission (memoir record): 為救援臺灣的政治犯，1976年「全美臺灣人權協會」（Formosan Association for Human Rights）成立；除救援政治犯外，進而對聲援島內政治反對運動採取積極行動。HOLD: page lists the founding-era name as 全美臺灣人權協會; contemporary org pages use 全美台灣人權協會 — variant kept as recorded, not merged.
  • Founding account (張丁蘭’s memoir): 張丁蘭 convened twelve Taiwanese women in New York in 1976 to found 北美洲台灣人權協會 — the first organized Taiwanese human-rights group in North America — systematic liaison with international media, rights organizations, church groups, and the U.S. Congress. In 1978 the association brought human-rights lawyer 雷諾維恩 to Taiwan to investigate; after the 美麗島事件 it mobilised letters to Congress nationwide (Sen. Kennedy’s office received a record volume) and helped organise the delegation led by 克拉克 that observed the 美麗島 show trial and declared at a UN-plaza press conference: 「美麗島事件，受審的是台灣政府。」 Source: 75. 台灣人權協會的開始與現況 (張丁蘭, 2014-12). HOLD: existing entry records a 1976 founding as 全美臺灣人權協會; 張丁蘭’s memoir records the 1976 founding in NY as 北美洲台灣人權協會 — whether renamed or predecessor org is not stated in the corpus; both kept as recorded.
  • Chapter records: Houston — 美國台灣人權協會休士頓分會 1986–1992 活動紀錄: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications-548|TAH 548休士頓會刊活動紀錄]]; national — 2014年會手冊: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/765-2014-e5-b9-b4-e6-9c-83-e6-89-8b-e5-86-8a-e5-85-a8-e7-be-8e-e5-8f-b0-e7-81-a3|TAH #765 2014年會手冊]].
  • Bay Area branch (灣區人權會): because the cultural group 協志會 could not headline political assemblies, Bay Area activists formed a 灣區人權會 so demonstrations could run under a human-rights name. In Feb 1977 the 人權會 sponsored the first Taiwanese-American demonstration in San Francisco (protesting the shutdown of 《臺灣政論》 and the 白雅燦 case); for nearly two decades afterwards — most intensely around the 美麗島事件 — rallies in the Bay Area were held under the 人權會 banner, largely organised by 協志會 cadres. Source memoir: 357. 舊金山灣區臺灣人的社團活動與家國意識之形成 (何義麟).
  • Bay Area Garden Party host (ourjourneys38 record): the Taiwanese Alliance for Interculture garden party (traditionally first held alongside the Northern California Baseball Quarterfinals, Sunnyvale, 1976-09-04) was hosted by FAHR for nearly ten years before being handed back to TAFNC, which evolved into the Taiwanese American Cultural Festival — 38 (EN); the 1977-02-28 「三十周年二二八」 demonstration under the 人權會 banner is recorded as the start of a decade of Bay Area anti-KMT protests in the same memoir.
  • 2023 annual meeting appearance: |蔡主義 (Jay Loo) pictured at the 2023 FAHR annual meeting — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/my-stories-897|897. My Stories #897]].
  • Publications: 人權通訊, published by Formosan Association for Human Rights 全美台灣人權協會, era 2017 — 人權通訊.
  • Anniversary record: 40th anniversary celebration in Rosemead, CA on 2016-12-10 — 33. 40th Anniversary of FAHR in Rosemead, CA.
  • Chen Wen-cheng fund (許永華’s memoir): on 1976-08-12 the first public fund-drive issued under the name 「陳文成敎授紀念基金會」 was launched through the 台灣人權協會 chapters in 匹茲堡 (Pittsburgh), 安雅堡 (Ann Arbor), 蘭莘 (Lansing) and 底特律 (Detroit), answering dispersed Taiwanese demands to support the Chen Wen-cheng family; the appeal ran in the 世台會 journal 「台灣通訊」 and was reprinted in 美麗島週刊 and 台灣公論報, with all proceeds earmarked for the living and education costs of 陳文成’s wife 陳素貞 and their young son — 321. 由陳文成紀念基金會的創立談起 (許永華, 2017-11).
  • Publication record: 新聞通訊 by 台灣人權協會, era 2017 — 新聞通訊; 張丁蘭’s founding account also exists in English — 75 (EN).
  • Chapter record: 南加州台灣人權協會 (FAHR S. California), era 2014 — 3. FAHR (S. California) 南加州台灣人權協會; Michigan chapter listed at Michigan Taiwanese Association for Human Rights.
  • First president: 張丁蘭 (Tina Chang) is recorded as the first president of 北美洲台灣人權協會 (1976) — 1976; companion record 1976.
  • Organizational histories in the corpus: 台灣人權協會簡史 (2018; English version also exists) — 40. 台灣人權協會簡史 / 40 (EN) History of FAHR; 台灣人權協會 1970–1990年代的故事 by 黃根深、王廷宜(泰和)、莊秋雄 (2015) — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications1040|TAH #1040]].
  • 高雄事件專輯 (1980): published by 台灣人權協會 in the wake of the 美麗島/高雄事件 — 11-1980.
  • Washington, D.C. chapter (華府台灣人權會): 1987 fund-drive to erect a 228 memorial tombstone in Taiwan — 1987.
  • Houston chapter program: 台灣民主鬥士子女獎學金 (scholarship for children of Taiwan democracy fighters) — 47. 台灣民主鬥士子女獎學金 by 台灣人權協會休士頓分會.
  • Canada branch: 台灣人權協會加拿大本部 listed in 黃武東’s 台灣人在北美洲 (2016), with the U.S. national office at 7813 Gabacho St., Carlsbad, CA — 266. 台灣人在北美洲 (黃武東).
  • New York chapter: founding member society of the 紐約紐澤西台灣人社團聯合會 (Taiwanese Community Council), alongside 陳文成敎授紀念基金會 and NTA New York — 9. 第一聲號角：台灣會館建館委員會的誕生 (黃再添).
  • Officer record: |陳希寬 (Michael S. K. Chen) served as 會計 (treasurer) of 台灣人權協會 after stepping down as WUFI vice-chair — 33. 一家人做伙來打拼 (張炎憲).
  • 228 memorial work (joint with TAI): each 2/28 FAHR and TAI jointly hold a 228 commemorative event — “We can forgive, but we can never forget”; in 2014 (40th anniversary) FAHR joined NTPA, TAA, the Taiwanese Culture Society and TAI in sponsoring the 228 Incident Academic Symposium at Syntek Hall Center, Palo Alto — 37 (EN).
  • Formosa passport campaign: FAHR was one of five organizations (with CTIR, FAPA, TAA and WUFI) that kept the “born on Formosa” passport place-of-birth campaign as a standing item of the joint-organization meetings, following 陳翠玉’s earlier lobbying of U.S. legislators — 254. 護照出生地「福爾摩沙」運動.
  • Houston chapter, program detail (莊承業’s memoir): the chapter issued its “1986–1992活動記錄” on 2005-12-07; core work is the annual 「台灣政治受難者子女獎學金」 (four awardees each for elementary, middle, high school and college, over $3,000/year); signature event was the 1991-02-11 banquet welcoming 「鄭南榕紀念獎」 winner 施明德 and 「台灣人權獎」 winner 陳菊 — 307. 休士頓分會活動記錄摘要 (莊承業, 2017-08); companion excerpt 106. HOLD: this memoir names the scholarship 台灣政治受難者子女獎學金; [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/projects1-47|TAH #47]] records it as 台灣民主鬥士子女獎學金 — both kept as recorded.
  • Pittsburgh chapter (許永華’s memoir, EN): before the 1976-08 public drive, 許東龍 (Tung-lung Hsu), president of the Pittsburgh FAHR, had already opened a local Prof. Chen Relief Fund and personally assisted 陳素貞 after her return to Pittsburgh; he died of brain cancer soon after — 321 (EN).
  • 42nd anniversary record: 42th Anniversary of Formosan Association of Human Right (全美台灣人權協會) in CA, 12/08 — 22. 42th Anniversary in CA; companion org record Formosan Association for Human Rights (全美台灣人權協會).
  • Annual meeting handbooks (companion records): 2010年會手冊 — 763. 2010年會手冊; 2013年會手冊 — 764. 2013年會手冊 (companion to the already-recorded 2014 handbook, TAH #765).
  • 台灣公論報 column: 台灣人權協會專欄 (台灣公論報), published by 台灣人權協會 — 8. 台灣人權協會專欄.
  • Taiwanese American Heritage Week (1999): FAHR is listed among the co-signatories of the statement issued by FAPA for the first Taiwanese American Heritage Week in May 1999, alongside Professor Chen Wen-Chen’s Memorial Foundation and North America Hakka Association — Taiwanese American Heritage Week.
  • Organization profiles in the corpus: TAH #22 全美台灣人權協會 (2015) — 22. FAHR; TAH #43 灣區台灣人權協會 (2016) — 43. FAHR (Bay Area); annual 年會手冊 series (2017) — Annual Journals of FAHR.
  • 高雄事件-era publications: 1177. Repression in Taiwan, FAHR & The Asian Center, 1980-11 — 1177. Repression in Taiwan (companion to the already-recorded 高雄事件專輯).
  • Predecessor note: 加拿大「台灣人權委員會」委員長黃義明 attended the 1965 留美台灣人結盟大會 at Madison, WI — 81. 早期(1960〜1970年)威大台灣學生在台灣建國運動所扮演的角色 (周烒明); relationship to the later FAHR Canada branch not stated in corpus.
  • Annual meeting & award record (TJJ): the annual meeting is held with the 「鄭南榕紀念獎」; the 2017-12-09 San Diego meeting awarded 鄭文龍, 王泰和(廷宜) and 黃根深 the 鄭南榕紀念獎 and 王康陸人權獎 — 2017年會頒獎 (聖地牙哥); the 44th annual meeting (2020-12-05) moved to Taipei for the first time — filmmaker 魏德聖 as 鄭南榕紀念獎 laureate and speaker, the 總統府 sent a representative, and past laureates were invited 「回娘家」 (1991 陳婉真, 1992 張燦鍙, 1997 黃文雄…) — 第44屆年會移師台灣.
  • FAHR seminars (TJJ): 2023-01-24 online seminar 「從2022年的敗選檢討到如何迎戰2024的大選」 with guests 陳桂鈴 (現任全美台灣同鄉會會長), 邱垂洸, 周昭亮 and 陳堅 — FAHR研討會 2023-01-24; 2026-02-11 「二二八防止政府暴行」 online seminar co-hosted with FAPA — FAPA·FAHR 二二八研討會.

From the record

  • 複核（TJJ-A09250400-11, 2026-09-25）：本 slice 文章 5b7741741c30e771（「梅心怡」標籤頁, 2024-07-24 快照） 正文再驗證——本頁 subject 連結為真實提及，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；含該文 wikilink 的日期事實條目已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 複核（TJJ-A09230900-2, 2026-09-25）：slice 文章 5b7741741c30e771（「梅心怡」標籤頁, 2024-07-24 快照）正文再驗證——本頁 subject 連結為真實提及，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；對應日期事實條目（含該文 wikilink）已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 複核（TJJ-A09171000-1, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 文章 5b7741741c30e771（「梅心怡」標籤頁 2024-07-24 存檔）正文再驗證——「FAHR為梅心怡募款– 8/7/2014」報導標題確認見於標籤頁正文，subject 連結為真，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；對應日期事實已在庫，無新材料。

  • 2014-08-07 — TJJ「梅心怡」標籤頁收錄〈台美人台加人：全美台灣人權協會（FAHR）為梅心怡募款〉，報導 FAHR 為罹患間皮癌的人權學者|梅心怡（Lynn Miles）募款（TJJ tag page，2024-07-24 快照；報導者 |黃再添）。

Source Notes

  • Content priority A: Name on Taiwan Center group-members page
  • Hub: |taiwancenter.org
  • Content priority C: Independent history not expanded from listing alone

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