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A national museum on gender equality and human rights issues should be established, human rights groups and the Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation said yesterday, which was International Memorial Day for Comfort Women.
Known euphemistically as “comfort women,” hundreds of thousands of girls and women from Asian countries were abducted and forced into sexual slavery prior to and during World War II by the Japanese military, a UN report said.
At the newly relocated Ama Museum in Taipei, foundation chief executive officer Tu Ying-chiu (杜瑛秋) announced the launch of programs and exhibitions documenting the stories of Taiwan’s comfort women, “so people would not
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On International Women’s Day yesterday, a group of legislators and civil groups called for the swift passage of a suite of legislation to address stalking, workplace harassment and revenge pornography, which are languishing in committee.
Although Taiwan is a world leader in gender equality, many women still encounter sexual harassment and gender-based violence, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Fan Yun (范雲) told a news conference at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei.
After identifying what they see as the main threats to women in Taiwan, Fan said that she and her colleagues drafted three bills as “arrows” to take down the “three great