{"id":13221,"date":"2021-03-15T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/03\/15\/taiwan-kicks-off-events-for-womens-history-month-starting-at-un-commission-on-the-status-of-women\/"},"modified":"2021-03-15T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T13:00:00","slug":"taiwan-kicks-off-events-for-womens-history-month-starting-at-un-commission-on-the-status-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/03\/15\/taiwan-kicks-off-events-for-womens-history-month-starting-at-un-commission-on-the-status-of-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan kicks off events for Women\u2019s History Month, starting at UN Commission on the Status of Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>TAIPEI, TAIWAN &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media&#13;<br \/>\nOutReach<\/a> &#8211; 15 March 2021 &#8211; Organized by Taiwan&#8217;s Foundation of Women&#8217;s Rights Promotion and&#13;<br \/>\nDevelopment (FWRPD) and the Mistry of Foreign Affairs, the ACCELERATING WOMEN&#8217;S&#13;<br \/>\nECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT webinar will be on March 18 at 8:30-10:00 am EST. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>These topics and more&#13;<br \/>\nwill be answered at the event:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The decisive factor of economic empowerment of women in&#13;<br \/>\nachieving gender equality and sustainable development<\/li>\n<li>The pivotal role of women in achieving the ambitious&#13;<br \/>\npromises of the UN&#8217;s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In observance Women&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nHistory Month, the Foundation is coordinating a series of activities in March,&#13;<br \/>\nincluding the dialogue on ACCELERATING WOMEN&#8217;S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT. The&#13;<br \/>\ndiscussion will be led by Taiwan&#8217;s Minister without Portfolio Audrey Tang, State Secretary to Minister for Gender Equality of Sweden,&#13;<br \/>\nKarin Strand\u00e5s, and Taiwan&#8217;s Ambassador at Large Lin Ching-Yi.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Tang, Taiwan&#8217;s first transgender government minister, will talk&#13;<br \/>\nabout the country&#8217;s plan to achieve Goal 5 of the SDGs on gender equality&#13;<br \/>\nthrough social innovation and economic empowerment. The charismatic minister&#13;<br \/>\nwill divulge how she works with the government to give citizens the space to be&#13;<br \/>\nsocially innovative. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Lin will discuss accelerating equality through gendered&#13;<br \/>\npublic policy making. The former legislator will talk about how law reform can&#13;<br \/>\ncontribute to creating the conditions for gender equality. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Other speakers from around the world will share their experiences in&#13;<br \/>\nadvancing women&#8217;s economic rights and independence, investing in women&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nempowerment, and supporting marginalized women to earn, save money, and improve&#13;<br \/>\ntheir health and wellbeing. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The 65th session of UN CSW runs from March 15-26. Held as part of&#13;<br \/>\nthe non-government organization forum to the UN&#8217;s Commission on the Status of&#13;<br \/>\nWomen (NGO-CSW), there will be another 26 parallel sessions organized by&#13;<br \/>\nTaiwanese NGOs. The active participation of Taiwan&#8217;s civil society organization&#13;<br \/>\nin the NGO-CSW forum is an indication of the advances Taiwan has made toward&#13;<br \/>\ngender equality in recent years. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Taiwan ranks first in Asia for gender equality, according to the&#13;<br \/>\nGender Equality Index, and has become the first Asian country to legalize&#13;<br \/>\nsame-sex marriage in 2019. This year, Taiwan took steps to expand the law to&#13;<br \/>\nallow same-sex marriage between Taiwanese citizens and foreigners. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Due to COVID-19, NGO-CSW65 will largely be a virtual event. Despite&#13;<br \/>\nthe restrictions, the enthusiastic participation of Taiwan&#8217;s NGOs shows that&#13;<br \/>\nTaiwan is ready to hit the road running in the post-pandemic race for gender&#13;<br \/>\nequality.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Links<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Accelerating&#13;<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s Economic Empowerment virtual event <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BsmdJBEHE08\"><img style=\"margin-right: 7px;vertical-align: middle;display: inline-block !important;width: 24px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/Release\/templates\/images\/socialMedia\/iconmonstr-youtube-6-24.png\"\/>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BsmdJBEHE08<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Other&#13;<br \/>\nevents at NGO-CSW65 organized by Taiwan&#8217;s NGOs<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FWRPD\/featured\"><img style=\"margin-right: 7px;vertical-align: middle;display: inline-block !important;width: 24px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/Release\/templates\/images\/socialMedia\/iconmonstr-youtube-6-24.png\"\/>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FWRPD\/featured<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Power&#13;<br \/>\nof Women, concept film<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGZc3C5Dx_0\"><img style=\"margin-right: 7px;vertical-align: middle;display: inline-block !important;width: 24px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/Release\/templates\/images\/socialMedia\/iconmonstr-youtube-6-24.png\"\/>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGZc3C5Dx_0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/View\/68775#Contact\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI, TAIWAN &#8211; Media&#13; OutReach &#8211; 15 March 2021 &#8211; Organized by Taiwan&#8217;s Foundation of Women&#8217;s Rights Promotion and&#13; Development (FWRPD) and the Mistry of Foreign Affairs, the ACCELERATING WOMEN&#8217;S&#13; ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT webinar will be on March 18 at 8:30-10:00 am EST. &#13; &#13; \u00a0 &#13; &#13; These topics and more&#13; will be answered at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}