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, by HIOE Brian
FORMER SUNFLOWER MOVEMENT participant Johanne Liou is to be deported from the US next month, facing charges related to drug trafficking and fraud. The arrest was conducted by ICE, with Taiwanese authorities stating that they requested Liou’s extradition. Liou did not appear at the New Taipei (…)
, by HSIN-YUN Wu, KUAN-HSIEN Wu
Taipei, Jan. 11 (CNA) Kuomintang presidential nominee Hou Yu-ih (侯友宜) and the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP’s) Lai Ching-te (賴清德) have agreed to the demands made by six civic groups regarding gender-based violence prevention, according to a statement by the groups released Thursday.
The (…)
, by JHANG JhuCin, NOUBEL Filip
Young men complain about the pressure to provide
As Taiwan is gearing up for its presidential and legislative elections in January 2024, Global Voices talked to Jhang JhuCin (張竹芩), a scholar and former politician, about gender relations in Taiwan, both in politics and in society at large. (…)
, by WU Weiting
On May 31st, a Facebook post by a former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) staffer ignited the long-smouldering embers of Taiwan’s #MeToo movement, illuminating local issues of sexual harassment and assault originally left behind by the 2017-2018 global #MeToo movement.
As the first Asian (…)
, by HIOE Brian
A short two months after a wave of #MeToo cases swept across the Taiwanese political landscape, it proves a question as to whether there have been genuine changes in social attitudes in the aftermath of these cases. Certainly, there has been no shortage of commentary on the matter, and the (…)
, by LIU Shan-Jan Sarah
Five years after the global #MeToo movement began, Taiwan has finally started its own. It began with a wave of sexual assault claims against several members of Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). While those alleged in the DPP have resigned, these claims led to allegations (…)
, by CHANG Darice D., JHANG Rita, LIN Caritta
Taiwan is home to draconian libel and slander laws, which those with the resources to afford can use liberally and which have in the past been utilized against journalists, contributing to the lowest confidence in the press in a democratic country. As the #MeToo movement in Taiwan plays out, (…)
, by HIOE Brian, YO-LING Daniel
Two months after the wave of #MeToo cases that began in late May, amendments were proposed and passed during the month of July to Taiwan’s “Three Gender Equality Laws” (性平三法): more specifically, amendments to the Gender Equity Education Act (性別平等教育法) were passed on July 28th, and amendments to (…)
, by Taipei Times
The Legislative Yuan yesterday passed amendments to a gender equality law that aim to better protect the rights and interests of victims of sexual harassment in the workplace.
The revisions to the Act of Gender Equality in Employment (性別工作平等法) follow the passage of a similar bill last week (…)
, by SHEN David, YANG Stephanie
TAIPEI, Taiwan — In a pivotal scene from the hit Taiwanese drama “Wave Makers,” senior political staffer Weng Wen-fang crouches outside a rollicking karaoke room, making a drunken call to another woman on her team, Chang Ya-ching.
Chang had been sexually harassed by a male colleague but, (…)
, by VALENTINE Ashish
“I knew before I came forward that I was definitely not alone in being a survivor, there must be others out there.”
Taiwan is now several weeks into a MeToo reckoning, with more than 100 survivors having come forward to accuse prominent figures in politics, the arts, academia, and civil (…)
, by HIOE Brian
In the past two weeks, Taiwan has seen a growing number of #MeToo style allegations, especially against political figures.
The past two weeks have seen a wave of #MeToo-style allegations in Taiwanese society. While the sexual harassment accusations first began within the ruling Democratic (…)
, by FINNANE Antonia
Every so often a woman takes up arms to lead a spirited struggle against invaders and occupiers of her homeland. Such women usually wind up dead at an early age, but they capture the imagination. The most famous example in British history is Boudica, aka Boedicea; in French history, it is Joan of Arc.
The Taiwanese revolutionary Hsieh Hsüeh-hung (1901-1970) is such a figure, (...)
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