schools protect the rights of sexual minority children to sexual health
information.
42. Recommendations:
(1) In teacher training and in-service training, the MOE should
provide further gender equality education and raise awareness of
LGBTQI-related issues among school staff, and offer supportive
counseling for those who are discriminated against and their
families. It should develop a regular tracking and evaluation
mechanism for the implementation of the gender curriculum and
the review of teaching materials at each school level, and pay
attention to regional differences.
(2) The MOE should continue to monitor the conflict of values and
beliefs regarding gender diversity in the teaching and learning
environment, and propose mid- and long-term anti-sexual
discrimination plans.
Children of Minorities and New Immigrants
43. According to the focus group discussions and NGO reports, most
indigenous children have experienced obvious or subtle discrimination,
and the experience is different between indigenous children in urban
areas and in indigenous communities due to different living
environments. Their rights should be addressed as two different types
of issues.32
44. Government's statistics 33 show that the number of children of new
immigrants increased from 273,000 to 305,000 between 2015 and 2020,
accounting for about 7.3% of the total student population, but no
government study has been conducted on discrimination against this
children group.
45. Recommendation: The Government should learn more about obvious
and subtle discrimination suffered by children of minorities and new
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Zhi-Shan Foundation Taiwan (2020). 2019-2020 Results Report on Subsidy for Ethnic Group
Mainstreaming and Indigenous Peoples Education Workshop Activities (not publicly available).
MOE (2021). Overview of School Attendance of Children of New immigrants at All Levels of
Schools for the 2020 Academic Year. Retrieved from
https://www.edu.tw/News_Content.aspx?n=829446EED325AD02&sms=26FB481681F7B203&s=4
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