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Nurses demonstrated in front of the legislature earlier this month. In particular, this was to call attention to the failure of the government to pass laws mandating a three-shift system for nurses.
Nurses and doctors were among those who had to handle the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. (...)
The #MeToo movement has been claimed as a global movement that connects women in the global North and the global South. Nonetheless, the MeToo movement must always confront various local social, economic, and cultural relations when it spreads across the globe. It also demands social, legal, (...)
Taipei, Aug. 23 (CNA) Labor groups have urged the Ministry of Labor (MOL) to raise Taiwan’s minimum wage to no less than NT$27,600 (US$865) for 2024 to tackle the effects of rising inflationary pressures.
The groups made the demand, which represents a hike of around 4.55 percent on the (...)
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 (...)
Taipei, Aug. 21 (CNA) Taiwan’s government will seek to hike defense spending by 3.5 percent to a record NT$606.8 billion (US$19 billion) in 2024, according to details from the central government’s budget proposal released on Monday.
The plan, which was presented by the Cabinet to President (...)
A YouTube animation, “Life of a Mountain Road Monkey” (山道猴子的一生), has become a sudden overnight hit in Taiwan. At time of writing, the animation has to close four million views–a figure suggesting that one in six Taiwanese has seen the video. The creator of “Life of a Mountain Road Monkey” is (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Though problematic in some regards, Port of Lies (八尺門的辯護人) is an attempt to grapple with some of the pressing racial issues of Taiwanese society.
Port of Lies centers around Tong Bao-ju, an Indigenous Amis public defender working in Keelung. He is cynically indifferent to his job, in (...)
The Chinese government has announced that it will conduct military exercises in the East China Sea starting today until the 14th, in an area approximately 500 kilometers away from Taiwan. Yesterday morning, the Zhejiang Maritime Safety Administration announced a no-sail order lasting from 12 (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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, (...)
A recent visit to Taiwan by Paraguayan president-elect Salvador Peña should serve as a reminder of Taiwan’s ties with regimes with questionable human rights records. Namely, even as Peña is feted as an ally of Taiwan, the Colorado Party that he served as the candidate of has ruled over (...)
DW has uncovered a growing number of claims of sexual assault and harassment against Tiananmen student leader Wang Dan. The prominent activist is facing a criminal investigation in Taiwan.
There is hardly a face more closely associated with the Chinese democracy movement than that of (...)
Despite the implementation of the Gender Equality in Employment Act for 21 years, there has been a failure to effectively prevent and address workplace sexual harassment in accordance with the law.
Employers who have failed to fulfill their responsibility to protect employees are already in (...)
Demonstrators protested on Ketagalan Boulevard today for a rally called by former NPP chair Huang Kuo-Chang and influential streamer and bodybuilder Holger Chen. The rally drew tens of thousands, despite intense heat in the afternoon, and can be seen as the first major campaign rally of the (...)
A UDN story alleged that the U.S. government had requested that Taiwan engage in bioweapon development.
Disinformation may be on the rise in Taiwan ahead of the 2024 elections next year. In recent years, much attention has gone to disinformation and misinformation as it is spread through (...)
In past weeks, the KMT has called for a legislative review of the US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade. This proves ironic.
The US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade is the first stage of a trade initiative in talks between Taiwan and the US, pertaining to customs and borders, (...)
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