Articulating core positions on victims’ rights, remedies, and State responsibility from a human rights and rights-based perspective.
This article maps victims’ rights in Taiwan law through four dimensions: state responsibility, procedural guarantees, prevention and protection, and remedies and reparations. It shows that victim protection in Taiwan extends beyond crime victims to all individuals or groups whose rights have been violated.
In this article, I-Min Hsiao, founder of Victim Support Taiwan (VST), outlines four core principles: to stand with victims is to stand with justice; victim rights are universal and inalienable; the state bears responsibility for ensuring justice; and victims have agency. The article adopts a rights-based perspective to examine victim protection, state accountability, and justice, challenging the “ideal victim” myth. It emphasizes that victims are not passive recipients of protection, but active participants in the pursuit of justice, and invites partners to join in advancing victim rights together.