| 英文摘要 |
Taiwan has long prided itself on the progress of gender equality; yet the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), often regarded as the international bill of rights for women, was not formally introduced to the island until 2007, almost 30 years after its establishment in 1979. The central question of this chapter explores how local women’s rights campaigns strategize to gain support from the administration (the Executive Yuan) and the parliament (the Legislative Yuan) in adopting and implementing CEDAW, initiating a series of the subsequent adoption of four other major human rights treaties in Taiwan. Excluded from major global intergovernmental organizations, Taiwan has adjusted the UN human rights monitoring procedures and produced a unique cycle of CEDAW country report review as well as a first-of-its-kind regular law review programme pursuant to the most recent general recommendations issued by United Nations. Along the path, multiple levels and categories of the strategies employed by gender equality activists across the national and local settings to shape Taiwan’s understanding and realization of international norms and standards are identified. This process of feminist framing of a variety of change-inducing practices, illustrating an amalgamation of the notions of policy mimicry, domestic transposition and competitive diffusion in the transnational social activism literature, might inform and inspire more cross-border social changes in today’s increasingly glocalized communities. |