A residency application of a Ugandan asylum seeker stuck in immigration limbo for seven years due to Taiwan’s lack of a refugee law is being processed, the National Immigration Agency said on Tuesday.
Control Yuan members Chi Hui-jung (紀惠容) and Kao Yung-cheng (高涌誠) on Monday expressed concern for the woman, identified only by the initial “A,” who arrived in Taiwan in July 2015 and sought asylum, reporting extreme violence and death threats in Uganda because she is gay.
The woman has been exempt from deportation, although she is unable to gain legal immigration status due to Taiwan’s lack of a refugee law,
Taipei, Aug. 9 (CNA) The National Immigration Agency (NIA) said Tuesday it had begun processing the residency application of a Ugandan asylum-seeker stuck in immigration limbo for seven years due to Taiwan's lack of a refugee law.
SOCIAL MEDIA ADS: Airport police have been warning Taiwanese bound for Cambodia and Thailand against trafficking rings and have stopped 23 people so farBy Hsieh Chun-lin, Chu Pei-hsiung and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Control Yuan has said it would investigate reports that some Taiwanese were imprisoned, tortured, sexually assaulted and threatened with organ harvesting after accepting part-time jobs in Cambodia and Myanmar.
Control Yuan members Yeh Ta-hua (葉大華) and Chi Hui-jung (紀惠容) said Taiwanese might be being trafficked in the two countries.
Local media have over the past few months reported that trafficking rings and human resources agencies have been placing job advertisements on social media for positions such as customer service workers or casino staff in Southeast Asian countries, Yeh said.
However, once there, Taiwanese have had their personal documents seized and been forced
People targeted by gender-based cyberharassment need more protection and the government should work with lawmakers to facilitate amendments that provide them, the National Human Rights Commission told a news conference on Thursday.
The commission released its “independent opinion” on the government’s fourth national report on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women a UN convention that establishes an agenda for national action to end prejudice against women.
The national report, which was unveiled by the Cabinet early last month, outlined the government’s implementation of the convention from 2017 to last year ahead of a review by