A recent legal case involving a series of online websites in which sex videos were uploaded without the consent of those filmed in them and used as a means of extortion raises severe questions about Taiwan’s justice system...
A murder case in Pingtung last week has led to further calls to strengthen anti-stalking legislation in Taiwan. Namely, the suspected killing is far from the only recent case in memory in which a woman was killed by a man because of inaction taken against stalking, attempted kidnapping, or attempted rape...
Marking International Trans Day of Visibility, the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights launched a petition yesterday calling for current restrictions on legally changing one’s gender to be removed...
Migrant worker groups demonstrated in front of the Legislative Yuan on International Women’s Day on Monday, calling attention to the plight faced by female migrant workers in Taiwan. Around 100 migrant workers, who were primarily from Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, were in attendance...
Not yet translated into English, Her Battles tells the stories of female activists and dissidents in China and their activism, roughly spanning the early 2000s to 2016. But Zhao Sile, also known as Alison Zhao, is also an activist in her own right...
A draft bill by the Health Promotion Administration aims to remove the current requirement for women to have the consent of their partners before an abortion. Likewise, an online petition on a platform run by the National Development Council has been started to call for the lifting of the current requirement....
An attempted murder-suicide case that took place in New Taipei earlier this year has resulted in a death sentence for a thirty-year-old woman who killed her six-year-old son and eight-year-old daughter before attempting to kill herself. The verdict, which can still be appealed, was made by the New Taipei District Court...
The Judicial Yuan has announced that it has completed a draft bill that would lift some of the currently existing limits on transnational same-sex marriages in Taiwan. The draft bill will next be reviewed by other government bureaus, such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Justice, and the Mainland Affairs Council...
