Years after #MeToo first swept the world, Taiwan races to respond


  • World
  • Friday, 28 Jul 2023

FILE PHOTO: A view of stickers and placards at a concert to support #MeToo movement in Taipei,Taiwan July 22, 2023. REUTERS/Ann Wang/File Photo

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Six years after the #MeToo movement rose to global prominence and toppled powerful perpetrators of sexual abuse, Taiwan is racing to reform laws and provide training and support as it reckons with its own wave of complaints.

Despite Taiwan's reputation as a progressive bastion in a conservative region - the first place in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage and one of few to have a female leader - it took the spark of a Netflix drama for it to confront a problem long shrouded in shame and silence.

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