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, by HIOE Brian
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 carrying (…)
, by HIOE Brian
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 PM (…)
, 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 NOUBEL Filip, WEN Liu
We can learn how civil society pushed the state to reform military structures
For people in Taiwan living under regular military threats from China, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the West’s responses to it have prompted queries about the Taiwanese military forces’ own readiness (…)
, 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 HIOE Brian
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 Paraguay (…)
, by DEMES David
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 (…)
, by CHANG Darice D., LIN Caritta
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 (…)
, by HIOE Brian
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 2024 (…)
, by HIOE Brian
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 (…)
, by HIOE Brian
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, (…)
, by HIOE Brian
KMT presidential candidate Hou You-yi proposed to lower the military draft earlier this week, suggesting that the draft should again be lowered to four months. The military draft was re-extended to one year by the Tsai administration in December of last year, with the draft having been lowered (…)
, 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 YO-LING Daniel
DIRECTOR CHANG YI-CHING’S (張伊青) new documentary, 《做自己的條件》Be Myself, made its world premiere on June 30th at the 25th annual Taipei Film Festival. Be Myself documents video editor Hsin-yu’s (欣嶼) journey through gender affirming surgeries and changing his legal gender from female to male. Chang’s (…)
, 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 LIU Andy
While passing by the Songshan Creative Park, I suddenly froze in my tracks, entranced, hypnotized even, by a poster so brazen and absurd that—for a moment—I thought I was hallucinating it. On it were scrawled the seemingly AI-generated words “The Infinite Glory of the Military Police” (…)
, by HIOE Brian
In particular, this year did not represent a significant push for Taiwan attempting to secure entrance to the WHA. The COVID-19 pandemic has seen Taiwan cite the dangers to global health that result from its exclusion from the WHA and WHO. Though Taiwan was allowed to participate in the WHA as (…)
, by HIOE Brian
THE DPP ANNOUNCED a slate of legislative candidates earlier this week, particularly with an aim on highlighting the young candidates it was fielding. This includes former Sunflower Movement student leader Lin Fei-fan, who later served as deputy secretary-general of the DPP as part of the Su (…)
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