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National Taiwan University updates teacher-student sexual harassment guidelines

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — National Taiwan University (NTU) students who face sexual harassment from supervisory teachers can now more effectively end their supervisory relationships, after the univ...

Taiwan's airlines told by lawmakers to improve gender equality in uniforms

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s legislature has frozen part of the Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) budget until airlines submit plans to address gender inequality caused by uniform ...

Ukraine to shake up recruitment as troops prove scarce

The number of Ukrainians willing to do military service has dwindled over the 20 months since Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed ...

Taiwan hosts East Asia’s largest LGBTQ+ pride parade

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The 21st Taiwan Pride parade supporting the LGBTQ+ community set attendance records on Saturday (Oct. 28), drawing a crowd of 176,000 people, according to event organizers...

Iceland: Women hold all-day strike for gender equality

Women in Iceland walked off the job on Tuesday, with tens of thousands gathering in the capital Reykjavik for a rally in support of women's rights. Organizers said the all-day strike was a statem...

Gender equality: AllBright report finds Germany still lagging

As old as the issue of gender equality for women in the professional world may be, it remains so urgent that just recently, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to a woman who researches this very...

AXA Study: Younger women in Hong Kong have poorer mind health

64% aged 40 and below are experiencing moderate to extreme stress over last yearHONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach - 10 October 2023 - AXA Hong Kong and Macau ("AXA") today released the third phase of it...

Ukraine's female soldiers complain of discrimination

Lesya Ganzha joined the Ukrainian army right at the start of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and was assigned to the infantry, serving in the Kyiv and Kharkiv regi...

Taiwan's Sunflower Movement graffiti greets Chinese tourists in London

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A Chinese dissident group commissioned a graffiti artist to create this work paying homage to Taiwan's Sunflower Movement as a means to counter Chinese Communist Party...

Taipei transgender rights march set for October

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan's fifth annual march in support of transgender rights will be held in Taipei on Oct. 27. The event organizer, Taiwan Tongzhi (LGBTQ+) Hotline Association, sa...

On the sidelines of the U.N.: Hope, cocktails and efforts to be heard

NEW YORK (AP) — Inside the U.N.'s gates, world leaders use the spotlight to talk — to each other and the entire planet. Outside, across New York City, civil society groups and large philanthropies tak...

Their husbands' misdeeds leave Norway's most powerful women facing the consequences

STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — The political careers of two of Norway’s most powerful women are under threat after it was revealed that their husbands were trading in shares behind their backs. ...

Chelsea Clinton hopes new donations and ideas can help women and girls face increasing challenges

NEW YORK (AP) — The Clinton Global Initiative added gender equity as a pillar of the nonprofit’s work to sound the alarm about the increasing challenges women and girls currently face, Clinton Foundat...

YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off the streaming site after sex assault claims

LONDON (AP) — YouTube said Tuesday that Russell Brand will no longer make money from the video streaming site after several women made allegations of sexual assault against the comedian-turned-influen...

The UN chief summons world leaders to action. But, he says, they seem 'incapable of coming together'

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Insisting that international cooperation is critical, the United Nations chief delivered a dire warning to leaders from across the world Tuesday, declaring that the planet is bec...