TAIWAN ACT! Taiwan Alliance to Combat Trafficking

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U.S. Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez Visits TaiwanACT to Advocate Against Human Trafficking in Taiwan

“I and my colleagues at the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues are passionately concerned about human rights and human trafficking in Taiwan and around the world.”

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Unacceptable: No Protection, No Enforcement, No Rest

Though inhumane and illegal, workers are not permitted any respite. Even when exhausted, workers are compelled to continue working every day of the week, their well-being, health, and mental state-of-mind trampled upon

Press Conference On "Slaves Labor, Human Trafficking"

....The workers said that the employer treated them with inhuman and slave like behavior. Confiscating important documents is an act of mental and psychological control. It is gravely heavier than the chains utilized to chain slaves of the 19th and 20th century.

Foreign laborers are scapegoated

The rash decision by the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) to deregulate the “3D” industries — dirty, difficult and dangerous — has meant that many foreign laborers have chosen to run away and become illegal fugitives after waiting in vain for new employers.

•	Foreign workers are not criminals: groups

•	PRESS RELEASE: Release of the TIP Report 2007

•	New regulations will ban commercial matchmaking

•	Malaysian men buy Vietnamese brides in coffee shops

•	Press Release

•	Taiwanese Policy Victimizes Migrant Workers

•	Migrant Laborer Fall Victim to Human Trafficking

•	Staff

•	The U.S. State Department has released the "Trafficking in Persons Report - 2006"

•	Tainan’s Massive Labor Trafficking and Rape Case

Justice and human rights for the Vietnamese Workers and Vietnamese Brides in Taiwan by empowering them with education, knowledge and awareness through direct and indirect actions / influences from the three geographical "forces" : Taiwan, the United States of America and Viet Nam.

The Taiwan Alliance to Combat Trafficking (TaiwanACT) is a non profit organization based in Taiwan. It works in partnership with other NGOs in Taiwan and Viet Alliance to Combat Trafficking (VietACT) in the US with the goal to combat human trafficking from Vietnam to Taiwan. It:

Commits to provide immediate relief to the victims of abuse

Eradicates and prevents trafficking.

Provides legal advices and assist in litigations.

Empowers the victims with knowledge to rise up together to fight for human rights and human dignity of Vietnamese brides and migrant workers.

We fight not just for the victims and potential victims of human trafficking. We also fight for ourselves because we cannot fully embrace our own dignity as human beings unless we champion the dignity of others.
- Colin Powell