Lastly our friends at www.acfa.tw held ACFW2026: Civic Space Forum this week... we heard good things from other friends & were really pleased to see this overview thread on it from @younglandis.bsky.social here! Well worth a read.
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Grateful to attend my first www.acfa.tw Taiwan and Southeast Asia Civic Space Forum. Great opening metaphor of "mangroves" by ACFA ED Leah Lin—roots and strength in numbers, seeds across seas, withstanding storms together—most appropriate for our many oceanic communities protecting civil rights 🧋
November 6, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Lastly our friends at www.acfa.tw held ACFW2026: Civic Space Forum this week... we heard good things from other friends & were really pleased to see this overview thread on it from @younglandis.bsky.social here! Well worth a read.
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As we wrap here at #ACFA2026 #ACFW2026, deep gratitude to www.acfa.tw for hosting this year's Asia Citizen Future Week and today's Taiwan and Southeastern Asia Civic Space Forum—and admiration for so many young organizers from throughout SE Asia, here speaking bravely: www.acfa.tw/acfw2026-en/ 🧋 #台灣
https://www.acfa.tw/acfw2026-en/🧋
November 3, 2026 at 10:35 AM
As we wrap here at #ACFA2026 #ACFW2026, deep gratitude to www.acfa.tw for hosting this year's Asia Citizen Future Week and today's Taiwan and Southeastern Asia Civic Space Forum—and admiration for so many young organizers from throughout SE Asia, here speaking bravely: www.acfa.tw/acfw2026-en/ 🧋 #台灣
#ACFW2026 Panel 1 is Youths, Actions and the Freedom of Association. The thread between Taiwan's own oppressive past and civic action today resonates. How does intimidation/real threats affect TW youth participation? Let alone foreign students/children of migrants in TW? www.acfa.tw/acfw2026-en/ 🧋
ACFW2026: Civic Space Forum
Event Information
* Date: 2026/11/03 Tue.
* Registration and lunch: 12:00-13:00
* Time: 13:00-18:30
* Organizer： Asia Citizen Future Association (ACFA) and Taiwan Association for Human Rig...
www.acfa.tw
November 3, 2026 at 6:33 AM
#ACFW2026 Panel 1 is Youths, Actions and the Freedom of Association. The thread between Taiwan's own oppressive past and civic action today resonates. How does intimidation/real threats affect TW youth participation? Let alone foreign students/children of migrants in TW? www.acfa.tw/acfw2026-en/ 🧋
Pointed audience question at www.acfa.tw/acfw2026-en #ACFW2026: How are subethnic divisions/languages/nuances reconciled when ethnic minorities are organising in Taiwan? (eg Filipinx). Reminds me of "Asian Americans" inside joke among advocates in United States. Strength in numbers unites all. 🧋
ACFW2026: Civic Space Forum
Event Information
* Date: 2026/11/03 Tue.
* Registration and lunch: 12:00-13:00
* Time: 13:00-18:30
* Organizer： Asia Citizen Future Association (ACFA) and Taiwan Association for Human Rig...
www.acfa.tw
November 3, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Pointed audience question at www.acfa.tw/acfw2026-en #ACFW2026: How are subethnic divisions/languages/nuances reconciled when ethnic minorities are organising in Taiwan? (eg Filipinx). Reminds me of "Asian Americans" inside joke among advocates in United States. Strength in numbers unites all. 🧋
Poignant reminder by a legal expert at #ACFA2026 on how legacy laws and attitudes from Taiwan's KMT martial law era—which intentionally make it difficult for people to organize / forces exposure of names—still make it difficult for civic action groups to organize today. www.acfa.tw/acfw2026-en/ 🧋
ACFW2026: Civic Space Forum
Event Information
* Date: 2026/11/03 Tue.
* Registration and lunch: 12:00-13:00
* Time: 13:00-18:30
* Organizer： Asia Citizen Future Association (ACFA) and Taiwan Association for Human Rig...
www.acfa.tw
November 3, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Poignant reminder by a legal expert at #ACFA2026 on how legacy laws and attitudes from Taiwan's KMT martial law era—which intentionally make it difficult for people to organize / forces exposure of names—still make it difficult for civic action groups to organize today. www.acfa.tw/acfw2026-en/ 🧋
(My own note: obvi this is 100000000% different than how 臺灣 Taiwan government treats "desirable immigrants"—Gold Card program, APRC, digital nomads, corporate expats—and let's just call it as it is: white westerners. Again, sound familiar?) #ACFW2026 🧋
November 3, 2026 at 10:01 AM
(My own note: obvi this is 100000000% different than how 臺灣 Taiwan government treats "desirable immigrants"—Gold Card program, APRC, digital nomads, corporate expats—and let's just call it as it is: white westerners. Again, sound familiar?) #ACFW2026 🧋
Another great speaker point at www.acfa.tw #ACFW2026 is the importance of *physical* spaces for youth to organize. Students especially need places where they can safely meet and exchange ideas. One reason why in Taiwan the progressive bookstores and cafés and even public spaces are key resources. 🧋
亞洲公民未來協會 ACFA
www.acfa.tw
November 3, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Another great speaker point at www.acfa.tw #ACFW2026 is the importance of *physical* spaces for youth to organize. Students especially need places where they can safely meet and exchange ideas. One reason why in Taiwan the progressive bookstores and cafés and even public spaces are key resources. 🧋
"Naming & Shaming" by regional/global consortia critical first step to call out human rights offenses, press freedom attacks etc mentioned at #InsideGaza hier soir et #ACFW2026 today. Panelists & audience alike sigh-laugh together on how Taiwan / Taiwanese fall short themselves on this currently 🤦🏻♂️🧋
November 3, 2026 at 8:48 AM
"Naming & Shaming" by regional/global consortia critical first step to call out human rights offenses, press freedom attacks etc mentioned at #InsideGaza hier soir et #ACFW2026 today. Panelists & audience alike sigh-laugh together on how Taiwan / Taiwanese fall short themselves on this currently 🤦🏻♂️🧋
"Petite remarque perso :
Sur la façon dont le gouvernement taïwanais traite les *immigrés souhaitables* (aka résidents permanents, nomades numériques, expatriés d’entreprises) > appelons un chat un chat : il s’agit, en réalité, d’Occidentaux blancs. Ça ne vous rappelle rien ?
#ACFW2026 🧋"
Sur la façon dont le gouvernement taïwanais traite les *immigrés souhaitables* (aka résidents permanents, nomades numériques, expatriés d’entreprises) > appelons un chat un chat : il s’agit, en réalité, d’Occidentaux blancs. Ça ne vous rappelle rien ?
#ACFW2026 🧋"
(My own note: obvi this is 100000000% different than how 臺灣 Taiwan government treats "desirable immigrants"—Gold Card program, APRC, digital nomads, corporate expats—and let's just call it as it is: white westerners. Again, sound familiar?) #ACFW2026 🧋
November 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM
"Petite remarque perso :
Sur la façon dont le gouvernement taïwanais traite les *immigrés souhaitables* (aka résidents permanents, nomades numériques, expatriés d’entreprises) > appelons un chat un chat : il s’agit, en réalité, d’Occidentaux blancs. Ça ne vous rappelle rien ?
#ACFW2026 🧋"
Sur la façon dont le gouvernement taïwanais traite les *immigrés souhaitables* (aka résidents permanents, nomades numériques, expatriés d’entreprises) > appelons un chat un chat : il s’agit, en réalité, d’Occidentaux blancs. Ça ne vous rappelle rien ?
#ACFW2026 🧋"
"Le *naming & shaming* par des consortiums régionaux ou mondiaux constitue une 1ère étape cruciale pour pointer les violations des droits humains/atteintes à liberté de la presse, etc
Sujet évoqué lors d' #InsideGaza et #ACFW2026.
Rire triste car Taïwan & sa population sont loin d’être exemplaires"
Sujet évoqué lors d' #InsideGaza et #ACFW2026.
Rire triste car Taïwan & sa population sont loin d’être exemplaires"
"Naming & Shaming" by regional/global consortia critical first step to call out human rights offenses, press freedom attacks etc mentioned at #InsideGaza hier soir et #ACFW2026 today. Panelists & audience alike sigh-laugh together on how Taiwan / Taiwanese fall short themselves on this currently 🤦🏻♂️🧋
November 3, 2026 at 10:33 AM
"Le *naming & shaming* par des consortiums régionaux ou mondiaux constitue une 1ère étape cruciale pour pointer les violations des droits humains/atteintes à liberté de la presse, etc
Sujet évoqué lors d' #InsideGaza et #ACFW2026.
Rire triste car Taïwan & sa population sont loin d’être exemplaires"
Sujet évoqué lors d' #InsideGaza et #ACFW2026.
Rire triste car Taïwan & sa population sont loin d’être exemplaires"
Another example in Southeast Asia: equating "spread of LGBTQ culture" as a military threat. Makes civil society networks ever important as observers, documenters, and defenders of human rights extremely important. (My own note: esp. if little freedom of press / foreign media presence) #ACFW2026 🧋
November 3, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Another example in Southeast Asia: equating "spread of LGBTQ culture" as a military threat. Makes civil society networks ever important as observers, documenters, and defenders of human rights extremely important. (My own note: esp. if little freedom of press / foreign media presence) #ACFW2026 🧋
Key topic at this Taiwan-Asia summit of course is financial sustainability. Various www.acfa.tw #ACFW2026 panelists—from foreign students piecing together $1000 NTD each to national chapters of global NGOs—everyone needs resources to care for leaders and volunteers alike. No capacity, no advocacy. 🧋
November 3, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Key topic at this Taiwan-Asia summit of course is financial sustainability. Various www.acfa.tw #ACFW2026 panelists—from foreign students piecing together $1000 NTD each to national chapters of global NGOs—everyone needs resources to care for leaders and volunteers alike. No capacity, no advocacy. 🧋
Listening to "Human Rights Defenders Protection: Localized Practices and Cross-Border Coordination" www.acfa.tw #ACFW2026 panel reminds so much of our #台灣歷史補課營 #TaiwanHistoryBTS relearnings on KMT White Terror—when intl NGOs once helped Taiwan activists find refuge: www.instagram.com/p/Dcsf5LbDxBd 🧋
November 3, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Listening to "Human Rights Defenders Protection: Localized Practices and Cross-Border Coordination" www.acfa.tw #ACFW2026 panel reminds so much of our #台灣歷史補課營 #TaiwanHistoryBTS relearnings on KMT White Terror—when intl NGOs once helped Taiwan activists find refuge: www.instagram.com/p/Dcsf5LbDxBd 🧋
Final www.acfa.tw #ACFW2026 "Authoritarianism and Xenophobia: Impacts and Responses" panel a clear and present topic. Right-wing efforts in SE Asia examples discussed even include kids video games that simulate tearing down minority religion temples. Early-start programs for racism, apparently 😔🧋
亞洲公民未來協會 ACFA
www.acfa.tw
November 3, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Final www.acfa.tw #ACFW2026 "Authoritarianism and Xenophobia: Impacts and Responses" panel a clear and present topic. Right-wing efforts in SE Asia examples discussed even include kids video games that simulate tearing down minority religion temples. Early-start programs for racism, apparently 😔🧋
Panel 2 www.acfa.tw #ACFW2026 on protecting human rights activists across Southeast Asia pointed out the irony that #台灣 #Taiwan *still* does not have formal asylum laws—despite urgent waves of Tibetans, Hongkongers, and Myanmar refugees in recent years. Legislative push continues each year. 🧋
November 3, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Panel 2 www.acfa.tw #ACFW2026 on protecting human rights activists across Southeast Asia pointed out the irony that #台灣 #Taiwan *still* does not have formal asylum laws—despite urgent waves of Tibetans, Hongkongers, and Myanmar refugees in recent years. Legislative push continues each year. 🧋
Panel 2 topic at www.acfa.tw #ACFW2026 is essentially "Who Defends the Defenders?" Interesting to learn about protectdefenders.eu —an EU mechanism led by a consortium of 12 NGOs active in the field of human rights, operating a rapid response team to provide urgent assistance to activists in danger 🧋
ProtectDefenders.eu - You have the right to defend rights
protectdefenders.eu
November 3, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Panel 2 topic at www.acfa.tw #ACFW2026 is essentially "Who Defends the Defenders?" Interesting to learn about protectdefenders.eu —an EU mechanism led by a consortium of 12 NGOs active in the field of human rights, operating a rapid response team to provide urgent assistance to activists in danger 🧋
Labor already / long been weak point in Taiwan civil society (recall KMT martial law Red scare, oppression/division against organizing). At #ACFW2026 *so many* examples shown, eg corporate suppression of foreign worker rights, union-busting, slandering www.spa.org.tw, collusion w/ migrant brokers🧋
桃園市群眾服務協會
桃園市群眾服務協會，致力於救援受困移工，我們成立三間庇護所，提供法律諮詢、緊急安置、協助取得合法薪資等幫助。
www.spa.org.tw
November 3, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Labor already / long been weak point in Taiwan civil society (recall KMT martial law Red scare, oppression/division against organizing). At #ACFW2026 *so many* examples shown, eg corporate suppression of foreign worker rights, union-busting, slandering www.spa.org.tw, collusion w/ migrant brokers🧋
Full circle: hotline.org.tw/english discussing transphobia in Taiwan itself. Same right-wing tactics as elsewhere: trans "danger" to children and women; separating LGB from T; queerness as a foreign influence threatening traditional values; strategic outing and doxxing of trans persons. #ACFW2026 🧋
| 台灣同志諮詢熱線協會
熱線為台灣第一個立案的同志組織，從電話諮詢開始，逐步發展出多樣化的社群服務，包含提供給同志父母、老年同志、青少年同志、女同志、跨性別等的聚會；同時也針對社會大眾提供性別教育、愛滋防治教育，並積極進行性別相關議題的政策倡導，以消除社會對同志的歧視與不平等對待，為了同志更好的生活而繼續努力！
hotline.org.tw
November 3, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Full circle: hotline.org.tw/english discussing transphobia in Taiwan itself. Same right-wing tactics as elsewhere: trans "danger" to children and women; separating LGB from T; queerness as a foreign influence threatening traditional values; strategic outing and doxxing of trans persons. #ACFW2026 🧋
TAHR 台灣人權促進會 Taiwan Association for Human Rights discussing how outdated laws plus prevailing attitudes treat foreign workers, migrant communities, asylum seekers as criminals, pressuring them to out other "illegals". Sound familiar, American friends? www.tahr.org.tw/issues/non-c... #ACFW2026 🧋
非我國籍人士 – 台灣人權促進會
所謂的難民，根據聯合國難民署的定義，是因為宗教、種族、政治、所屬社會群體而遭到母國迫害的人們，必須在離開母國，取得第三國的保護。在東亞，日本、韓國及香港都有難民審查及保護機制，台灣至今卻仍未通過難民法，也未能建立審查保護機制。推動立法及建立機制，是我們持續努力推動的方向。除了難民之外，也有些人因為各國國籍法的規定之落差
www.tahr.org.tw
November 3, 2026 at 9:56 AM
TAHR 台灣人權促進會 Taiwan Association for Human Rights discussing how outdated laws plus prevailing attitudes treat foreign workers, migrant communities, asylum seekers as criminals, pressuring them to out other "illegals". Sound familiar, American friends? www.tahr.org.tw/issues/non-c... #ACFW2026 🧋
Tues:
Asia Citizen Future Association & Taiwan Association for Human Rights & more hold: "ACFW 2026 Civic Space Forum"
That brings together NGOs, practitioners, human rights lawyers and youths from across the region in Taipei.
Very much recommend!
www.instagram.com/p/DdbNM2AioLA
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Asia Citizen Future Association & Taiwan Association for Human Rights & more hold: "ACFW 2026 Civic Space Forum"
That brings together NGOs, practitioners, human rights lawyers and youths from across the region in Taipei.
Very much recommend!
www.instagram.com/p/DdbNM2AioLA
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November 1, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Tues:
Asia Citizen Future Association & Taiwan Association for Human Rights & more hold: "ACFW 2026 Civic Space Forum"
That brings together NGOs, practitioners, human rights lawyers and youths from across the region in Taipei.
Very much recommend!
www.instagram.com/p/DdbNM2AioLA
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Asia Citizen Future Association & Taiwan Association for Human Rights & more hold: "ACFW 2026 Civic Space Forum"
That brings together NGOs, practitioners, human rights lawyers and youths from across the region in Taipei.
Very much recommend!
www.instagram.com/p/DdbNM2AioLA
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