Taiwan has launched its first-ever study of institutional sexual assault cases against children and teens, with the aim of tackling the issue more effectively and reducing such crimes, Control Yuan President Chen Chu (陳菊) said yesterday.
“To understand the structural factors of the problem, the National Human Rights Commission of the Control Yuan has begun a campaign to discover the reasons for these offenses,” Chen said at a news conference alongside Control Yuan members Chang Chu-fang (張菊芳) and Tien Chiu-chin (田秋堇).
Police reported 7,787 sexual assault cases last year, with 4,520 involving victims younger than 18, Chen said, citing Ministry of Health
Taipei, July 4 (CNA) Taiwan has launched its first-ever study of institutional sexual assault cases against children and teens, with the aim of tackling the issue more effectively and reducing these crimes, Control Yuan President Chen Chu (陳菊) said on Monday.
Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) yesterday welcomed nine international experts to the opening of a week of meetings to review Taiwan’s implementation of two UN human rights covenants.
The meetings are also to involve government agencies and civil society groups. They were organized by the Ministry of Justice and the Executive Yuan to provide input and recommendations regarding the nation’s implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Su touted Taiwan’s achievements over the past few years, saying it was the first nation in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage in
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A permanent exhibition on Taiwan’s decades-long fight for speech freedoms opened on Thursday at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, where participants also remembered late democracy activist Deng Nan-jung (鄭南榕), who committed suicide 33 years ago.
The exhibition, titled Taiwan’s Long Walk to Freedom of Speech, chronicles the country’s social movements and key events in support of speech freedoms, Minister of Culture Lee Yung-te (李永得) said at the opening ceremony.
From 1945 until 1992, when a law that made dissent illegal was amended, numerous people across many generations sacrificed personal freedoms, and even their lives, to fight for free speech and