台灣的人權研究和人權教育需要更為廣闊周延的視野。一方面，要突破將人權等同於公民與政治權利的傳統觀念，將更廣泛的社會運動納入人權史的研究範圍。另一方面，則是要將台灣的人權發展置於全球歷史脈絡，探討作為一個長期被孤立於國際社會之外的國家，台灣在普遍人權規範全球化過程中的角色。本文目的即在提出一個以普遍人權的概念為基礎、以社會運動為中心的分析架構，並初步爬梳台灣人權運動的歷史發展，做為進一步書寫台灣人權運動史的出發點。

A more extensive and thorough perspective is needed in the writing of Taiwan’s human rights history. On the one hand, the traditional conception of human rights should be extended to economic, social, and cultural rights. A variety of social movements should be included in the research and writing of human rights history. On the other hand, the local struggle should be located in the global context. Being isolated from the international community for decades, Taiwan’s role in the process of socialization of universal human rights norms is a subject to be explored. The aim of this article is to propose an analytical framework as the starting point of further research on the history of human rights movements in Taiwan.