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Migrant Workers in Taipei Raise Awareness of Gender Violence, Palestine Through Song and Dance

On Sunday, dozens of migrant workers in Taipei gathered at the city’s central train station to protest gender violence against migrant women as well as raise awareness about the plight of Palestinian women and children through a flash mob performance. This was in celebration of “One Billion Rising”, an annual campaign against rape and gender violence held in 60 countries worldwide. The name comes from a statistic that within their lifetime, at least one in three women across the world will have encountered gender violence, which totals to around one billion people...

Ahead of International Workers’ Day, Migrant Workers Demonstrate Outside of Ministry of Labor

A demonstration by migrant workers took place outside of the Ministry of Labor this afternoon. Migrant workers demonstrated today because April 28th is the last Sunday before May 1st, which is International Workers’ Day, and which is commemorated with a labor protest every year in Taiwan. However, unless May 1st falls on Sunday—which is usually the only day off that migrant workers have off every week, if they have one at all—most migrant workers are unable to demonstrate that day...