Hsiao-Wei Kuan - Women's Rights are Human Rights
An Austrian-Taiwanese Legal Dialogue
with:
- Kuan Hsiao-Wei, National Taipei University, Taiwan
- Elisabeth Greif, Legal Gender Studies, Johannes-Kepler Universität Linz
- Nikolaus Benke, Institut für Römisches Recht und Antike Rechtsgeschichte, Universität Wien
Moderation: Astrid Lipinsky, Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies, Universität Wien
10.00: Opening of Workshop
10.15: Kuan Hsiao-Wei: An Old Norm with New Missions: Implementing CEDAW in Taiwan
11.00: Elisabeth Greif: The Rights of Sexual Minorities under CEDAW – A Queer Reading of the Women’s Convention
Discussion: Is CEDAW really a global convention, and can it be used accross cultures?
12.30 – 14.00: Lunch break
14.00: Kuan Hsiao-Wei: The Human Rights Approach to Infidelity:
The Transformation of the Movement to Decriminalize Adultery in Taiwan
14.45: Nikolaus Benke: n.n.
15.30 – 16.30 Discussion: Historically seen: Is the human rights approach advantageous?
