Taipei, June 30 (CNA) The government should work with lawmakers to facilitate law amendments that provide more protection to victims of gender-based cyberviolence, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said in its recommendations to the government released Thursday.
The Control Yuan yesterday presented a report on relocation of indigenous villages following Typhoon Morakot in 2009, calling for policy changes and better oversight mechanisms.
Policies for relocating people in mountainous regions due to natural disasters are needed, including oversight mechanisms to ensure the quality and safety of new housing, as well as the participation of residents throughout the process, the report said.
After Typhoon Morakot struck southern Taiwan in August 2009, requiring more than 40 villages to be resettled, numerous issues emerged regarding relocations to areas that were deemed safer.
The catastrophe led experts and government officials to designate it as the
Taipei, Feb. 23 (CNA) Human rights groups in Taiwan and Japan have called on the government to change its stance of only allowing mixed-nationality same-sex couples to marry in Taiwan if they come from a country that also recognizes same-sex marriage.
An investigation into Tsai Chi-hao (蔡其豪), captain of the Kinmen County Police Bureau’s Criminal Investigation Division and brother-in-law of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Jessica Chen (陳玉珍), found alleged misconduct, Control Yuan member Chi Hui-jung (紀惠容) said on Friday.
In presenting her report, Chi told the Control Yuan that Tsai was found to have contravened regulations.
Later that day, Kinmen police officials said in a statement that they respected the Control Yuan’s findings.
“Upon receiving the official documents of the report from the Control Yuan, our bureau will forward the case to the Public Functionary Disciplinary Sanction Commission, and will follow up
Taipei, Nov. 30 (CNA) Securing the rights of migrant fishermen, described as the backbone of Taiwan's distant-water fishing fleet, is the most pressing issue facing the country's fisheries industry, the head of the government's top oversight body said Tuesday.