Taiwan News
Date: 2018/03/10
By: Central News Agency
Taipei, March 10 (CNA) Migrant worker rights groups in Taiwan are set to hold a flash mob
Migrant workers dancing at the Taipei Railway Station. (By Central News Agency)
dance at Taipei Main Station on Sunday to call for better rights for foreign migrant workers, especially female caregivers, in the country.
The event, now in its fifth year, is to show solidarity with the One Billion Rising campaign, a global campaign launched by playwright and activist Eve Ensler in 2012 to highlight violence against women, said Gilda Banugan, chairperson of Migrante International’s Taiwan Chapter, an organization that fights for the rights of Filipino migrant workers.
The global campaign, which usually lasts from Feb. 14 through March 8, invites women around the world to dance together to call for justice and raise awareness of sexual violence and other forms of abuse against women.
Migrant workers, mostly from the Philippines and Indonesia, will stage five dance performances at Sunday’s event, including “We are Beautiful” and “Break the Chain,” Banugan told CNA Saturday. [FULL STORY]
