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Attorney Nian-Tzu Lee, member of the Presidential Office Human Rights Consultative Committee, stated that government agencies while exercising their authority should understand that the people’s human rights should be respected. When encountering legal problems, people usually resort to criminal litigation and administrative litigation. Administrative agencies use their administrative authority to give commands and control and restrict the people’s rights. If unjustified enforcement of the law occurs, that will directly harm the people’s rights like property right and the right to liberty, and the threat to such rights is ubiquitous.

Experts on human rights, laws, and taxation as well as a judge and a prosecutor explore the topic—“Legal and Tax Reform, It’s Everyone’s Responsibility.”

At the forum entitled “Principles of Fact Determinations and Human Rights Protections in Criminal Investigations and Administrative Disputes” on Human Rights Day 2015, Ms. Bo-Ya Chang, president of the Control Yuan, delivers a speech.

On 6 January 2016 the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization’s (CTBTO) monitoring stations picked up an unusual seismic event in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Boys hold a large piece of twisted metal near homes that were destroyed in an air strike, in Okash Village, near Sana’a, the capital of Yemen.

The Blue Line, the boundary between Lebanon and Israel, near the water-rich Sheba’a Farms.

The Netherlands will be at the helm of the Council of the EU for the first six months of this year. The country will focus on promoting economic growth and connecting with civil society. The priorities will be migration and international security; innovation and job creation; sound finances and a robust euro zone; a forward-looking climate and energy policy. We asked Dutch MEPs across the political spectrum about their expectations.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks on the telephone.

UNIFIL peacekeepers do Blue Line marking.

Special Representative Martin Kobler of Germany.