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SILENCE: Power relations in the workplace and a lack of preventive measures were identified as reasons sexual harassment cases are ignored, a charity saidBy Shelley Shan / Staff Reporter ....
FACING BARRIERS: The students need to feel ‘understood and respected’ before they can integrate, the migrant services director of the Garden of Hope Foundation saidBy Yang Yuan-ting and Jason Pan / Staff reporters ....
Same-sex couples go to court to push for equal adoption rights 04/01/2021 07:38 PM To activate the text-to-speech service, please first agree to the privacy policy below. Taipei, April 1 (CNA) In order to seek a change in existing laws which forbid same-sex couples from adopting children, three gay couples and rights groups pledged to take their cases to court Thursday. Currently, the same-sex marriage law only allows a homosexual person to adopt the biological child of their partner, said Jennifer Lu (呂欣潔), executive director of the Taiwan Equality Campaign (TEC), at a press conference Thursday. Married homosexual couples do not have the legal right to adopt non-biologically-related children, unlike heterosexual couples, Lu said. ....
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 ....