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Cabinet Unveils Draft Bill and Picks a Side in Taiwan's Gay Marriage Fight (The News Lens International, 2019/02/22)

The administration of Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has approved a draft bill which, if passed, will make Taiwan the first country in Asia to legally enact marriage equality for same-sex couples.

The draft legislation comes almost two years after Taiwan’s highest court ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. However…

Legislator Slams 'Embarrassing' Failure to Protect Taiwan's Migrant Fishermen (The News Lens International, 2019/01/11)

On Thursday, Jan. 10, in front of assembled media, the director of Taiwan’s Fisheries Agency (FA) and a Ministry of Labor (MOL) official sustained an hour-long barrage of criticism of their departments’ performance by legislators and labor representatives, who once again accused the FA and MOL of not doing enough to protect the human rights of foreign migrant fishermen aboard Taiwan’s fishing fleet.