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- Featured News: The First Anniversary of the Licensed Prostitutes' Struggle
- The Violence of an Older Brother and the Silence of the Parent
- Pinocchio to the Indonesian Government
- Featured News: The First Anniversary of the Licensed Prostitutes' Struggle.
On the eve of the first anniversary of the licensed
prostitutes' struggle, Taipei City Mayor Chen announced that
the City would extend the subsidy for them for another year.
Taipei Alliance of Licensed Prostitute organized a protest in
front of the City Hall. By showering the Plaza with fake money,
licensed prostitutes and their supporters refused to accept
such a "bribe" right before the election. The Secretary in
Chief stated that what Mayor Chen aimed at was simply a tactic
to bind the licensed prostitutes with "fake benefits." The
issue regarding the legality of licensing prostitution was not
simply a decoy before election. The two years that the
licensed prostitutes have demanded was meant to provide a
cushion for transition; this issue was not to be used as a
political decoy at the expenses of the citizenry tax money.
(1998.9.3 China Times)
Taipei Alliance of Licensed Prostitute went back to Pao-Dou-Li
for a memorial of the first anniversary of their struggle.
During the rally, they demanded answers to five questions they
posed to Mayor Chen:
- Why this sudden change of benefit policy after one year?
- Why received those licensed prostitutes in person only until now? And, why did only four beneficiaries actually go?
- Why didn't he receive those who refused to accept the money?
- Who was the "outside force" oppressing licensed prostitutes?
- Why didn't Mayor Chen announce the two-year cushion plan after it was passed by the City Council?
(1998.9.5 China Times)
- The Violence of an Older Brother and the Silence of the
Parent
After 9 long years of raping two biological sisters, Liu's
charges were withdrawn by their knowing parents. The Municipal
Courts of Shih-Lin has turned this case to the public
prosecutor and demanded investigation of the parents' legal
liability. (1998.9.8 China Times)
- Pinocchio to the Indonesian Government
Several women's groups have gone to the Office of Economics and
Trade of Indonesia in Taiwan to protest the continuous lies
their government had been feeding the public with regarding the
violence again Chinese women. To get the point across more
forcefully, those women's groups presented a puppet Pinocchio
to the representatives of the Indonesian government.
(1998.9.15 China Times)
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