The Global Viewpoint for the Movement against Segregation, Discrimiunation and Stigmatization of the People Affected with Hansen''s Disease (Leprosy)—A Report of the Resistance by the Residents in Lo-sheng Sanatorium, Taiwan.
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Lai, Tse-Chun
Abstract
The topic of this thesis is the Taiwan Lo-sheng sanatorium which established under the Japanese colonial government in 1930.n the history of Lo-sheng sanatorium, thousands of Hansen’s disease patients have been segregated here for many years, and till now, there are still 300 residents living inside it. However, since 2002, the sanatorium has started to be suffered from a eviction project launched by government to destroy the whole living space of residence, and the reason of this is the construction of the Sichuan line of Taipei Mass Rapid Transit System. In order to complete this construction project, the government has planed to move all the residents to a new building besides old district which contains a hospital-like accommodation and administration. Nevertheless, many of the residents never accept this accommodation project; therefore, they started to organize a social movement to protest against this policy. Moreover, this social movement has united with many international social movement groups who concern the human rights of Hansen''s disease suffered. This movement and coalition at last made a proposal of "Hansen''s Disease Human Rights Law" to be held in the Taiwan Legislative Yuan.n this research, we discussed about the history of global Hansen''s disease segregation policy, and the movements against it. On the other hand, this thesis made a careful research about the human rights violation of this segregation policy under the ROC government in Taiwan since the year 1949. Especially after 1962, even though the segregation policy already being officially abolished by government, but actually this abuse policy is being practiced right until nowadays. We hope that it is a good chance to face the fact and truth to this policy of human right violation, to make it introspection to ourselves. Then, it is possible to call the end to the discrimination of Hansen’s disease suffered in Taiwan, It is by that time the fairness and the social justice will come to us as truth.
Subjects
Hansen''s
Disease
Leprosy
Segregation
Discrimination
Stigmatization
Resistance
Lo-sheng Sanatorium
Human Rights
Heritage
Space
knowledge
authority
politics
technical bureaucrat
Human rights violation investigation
State Compensation
Post-colonialism
Social Movement
International Solidarity
Internationalism
Legislation
Public Health
Public Construction
Mass Rapid Transit System
MRT
SDGs
Type
thesis
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