Human Rights Program – Harvard Law School
Women’s Victimization in Transitional Justice and their Fight for Democracy and Human Rights:
The Story of Taiwan
By Yi-Li Lee
Research Working Paper Series
March 2018
Women, even though they were main victims of Taiwan’s authoritarian regime, have been largely absent from the transitional justice mechanisms after Taiwan successfully transformed into a democracy.
Following the discussion of women’s victimization in times of political oppression and the negative impacts of women’s absence in Taiwan’s current transitional justice process, this essay argues that the recent
incorporation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women provides a gender-sensitive legal framework for female victims to overcome the social and institutional
obstacles that they have faced in transitional justice issues.
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