The debate over what to do with the Control Yuan has become increasingly contested, as linked with continued partisan splits between the pan-Blue and pan-Green camps...
On the morning of August 13, the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights—in collaboration with 44 other civil society groups and 31 experts from a variety of sectors—held a press conference on transgender rights to launch a petition demanding the Ministry of Interior immediately abolish its 2008 executive order...
This morning at 10 AM, civil society groups held a press conference outside of the Control Yuan to condemn the Ministry of the Interior’s (MOI) inaction in changing its 2008 executive order (內政部97年11月3日內授中戶字第0970066240號令) requiring sexual organ removal surgery to change one’s legal gender, despite a total of six administrative court rulings in the past three years that clearly condemn the surgery requirement. After the press conference, a group of civil society group representatives and transgender community members met privately with a Control Yuan official to cordially request that the Control Yuan open an investigation on the MOI for delaying the abolition of compulsory surgery...
Control Yuan members Wang Mei-yu, Wang Yu-ling, and Upay Radiw Kanasaw held a press conference late last month to call attention to the lack of pathways for migrant workers to work in the agricultural sector. Namely, compounded with the agricultural sector’s shortage of workers, this has resulted in a “symbiotic” relationship between the agricultural sector and migrant workers that have fled their workplace, commonly referred to as “runaway” migrant workers...
An ongoing Control Yuan investigation aims to investigate a care facility in Taoyuan linked to the death of a five-year-old child and brain damage to a six-year-old child...
A recent investigation by the Control Yuan, which resulted in the oversight body censuring the Yuan Ming Junior High School and Yunlin County Department of Education, should point to broader issues in Taiwan regarding corporal punishment in schools. The investigation was carried out by Control Yuan members Lai Ting-ming...
The Control Yuan condemned the construction process for the Miramar Resort in Taitung late last month, arguing that an investigation should be carried out into the construction process for the beach resort. The Control Yuan made the assessment after visiting the site of the planned Miramar Resort and interviewing local residents...
A report by the Control Yuan released last month emphasized problems regarding sexual abuse in athletics programs in Taiwan. According to the report, there have been 548 reported violations of the Gender Equity Education Act since 2014. Track and field, basketball, baseball, judo, and taekwondo are the sports in which the most violations have been reported...
A corruption case involving a former Supreme Court justice could have large implications, provided that it gains more traction in the news cycle and the current administration is willing to expend political capital on the case...
