Independent Opinion of CEDAW general recommendations and the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention and the Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence General Recommendation No. 1, and discuss and implement effective measures to eliminate digital gender-based discrimination and violence. The government should comprehensively compile statistics on digital gender-based violence and collect and analyze gendered data on women from disadvantaged groups regarding prevalence, reporting, petitions, processing, prosecutions, and convictions of such offenses.
Recommendation 5 (1) The Legislative Yuan and the Executive Yuan should speed up improvement of the legal system to recognize sexual autonomy, sexual privacy, personality rights, right to reputation, and the safe and sustainable development of the online environment as protected legal interests. They should provide emergency protection and assistance to victims, establish grounds for victims to claim the right to be forgotten or to have their sexually private images removed, and place corresponding responsibilities on Internet service providers. (2) Pending the improvement of laws and regulations, the government should fulf ill its national obligations under CEDAW rules to expand and flexibly apply existing laws and regulations related to sexual violence to provide protection, assistance, and support to victims in order to reduce harm on them. The government should also prioritize education and training for police, judicial, medical, social, education, and ¯12¯