Pei-Lun Tsai
Ph.D. student, School of Law,
University of Nottingham

On 13 December 2012, European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or the Court) delivered its judgment in El-Masri v The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, where the Court found Macedonia responsible for torture, ill-treatment and secret rendition of a German national, and in violation of a number of provisions in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).  The applicant, Mr El-Masri, was subjected to an extrajudicial transfer of from one jurisdiction to another for detention and interrogation outside the normal legal system, otherwise known as “extraordinary rendition”.  It was believed that his initial arrest was a result of mistaken identity: his name resembled that of a suspected member of Al Qaeda.  Although the ECtHR case was brought against Macedonia, the judgment is in fact the first international judicial decision rendered on extraordinary rendition practised by the Central Information Agency (CIA) of the United States (US).  While the case of Mr El Masri has been brought to the attention of various national, regional, and international mechanisms (see external links below) and is now still pending before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the current contribution would focus on the considerations and analyses of the ECtHR.

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李柏翰*/李宜恩**

 

壹、 東吳人權學程與國際迷你課程

一、 東吳人權學程

為推廣人權概念、建立人權意識，在張佛泉人權研究中心（台灣第一個專業的人權研究中心）及許多義工不斷地努力催生下，東吳大學於2004年8月成立了人權學程。人權學程是國內目前唯一的人權專業教學單位，目的在於提供大專院校學生系統性的人權基礎教育，不僅著重人權理論的思辨外，亦訓練學生主動關心社會上的不正義以及弱勢團體的權益。事實上，人權學程邀請許多傑出的學者與非政府組織的專家參與教學，也和國內外許多NGOs合作密切，讓學生們除了得以在課堂裡學習，更有充足的機會，透過實習、倡議活動，實踐所學。 未來人權學程將持續加強師資陣容，整合課程，同時在張佛泉人權研究中心及人權學程的基礎上，於2008年9月也正式開辦了人權碩士班招收國內外學生，以期成為亞洲人權教學與研究的重鎮。人權學程的發展有五大目標，包括：（一）理論與實踐並重、（二）涵蓋人權的普遍性與特殊性、（三）人文與科技之整合、（四）本土化與國際化並重及（五）培養參與國際、國內人權組織的優秀人才。^[1]

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