Shining Light into Dark Corners Forum 1 Women and Gender Groups Forum on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Long-term Care and Childcare, Gender Equality, and Emerging Digital Privacy Rights. Taiwan took it upon itself to sign the Convention Rights Exchange Hub” series of forums was held on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination on March 5, 2021. 24 NGOs throughout Taiwan a g a i n s t Wo m e n ( C E D AW ) i n 2 0 0 7 . T h e took part in the dialogue with Commissioner legalization of the CEDAW act in 2011 showed Chi Hui-jung as the moderator. The topics of that domestic women’s human rights movements concern for women’s groups at the forum included were in line with international standards, a sexual harassment in the workplace complaints, significant milestone for domestic women’s human implementation of support mechanisms for victims rights. The incorporation of international human of sexual assault, as well as long-term care and rights conventions into domestic law has seen the childcare policies. A number of NGOs also called universal values of human rights outlined in the for the government to improve its protection of articles of such conventions, which become a digital privacy rights as advances in network and key indicator for non-government organizations to digital communication technologies have led to review government policies. malicious dissemination of personal imagery. The first session for women and gender groups Taiwan's passing of the Act for Implementation of as part of the NHRC “Social Dialogue - Human J.Y. Interpretation No. 748 in 2019 meant we The NHRC sat down to exchange opinions with women’s and transgender groups in order to promote human rights through the power of collective care. became the first nation in Asia to legalize samesex marriage. Nevertheless, supporting legislation have not kept up. For example, a child could previously be adopted by an unmarried person. Same-sex couples however cannot jointly adopt a child and form a family at the present. The reason for this is that the Act only permits adoption for “the genetic child of the other party.” In other words, the children must be related by blood. We now have a ridiculous situation where a single person can adopt but same-sex couples cannot. To obtain an in-depth understanding of the human rights topics on gender minorities (LGBTQIA+), the relevant NGOs were invited to take part in this forum as well. Topics of concern included gender equality education on campus, the right to education for gay and transgender students, and the requirements for transgender people seeking to Women’s session of the Human Rights Exchange Hub on March 5, 2021. 40 change their national ID. Women’s session of the Human Rights Exchange Hub was chaired by Commissioner Chi Hui-jung. 41