SDG10.6.4 Anti-discrimination policies
Anti-discrimination policies
NCUE has always attached importance to gender equality and devoted itself to the policy propaganda of anti-discrimination and anti-harassment in order to create a friendly campus. The relevant regulations and propaganda are as follows:
1. Rules on the Prevention and Handling of Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, or Bullying on Campus
According to the Ministry of Education’s ‘Regulations on the Prevention and Handling of Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, or Sexual Bullying on Campus’, NCUE has formulated the ‘Rules on the Prevention and Handling of Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, or Bullying on the Campus of National Changhua University of Education’ to safeguard students’ rights and interests in education and growth, and to provide learning and working environments in which NCUE’s faculty and staff are free from sexual assault, sexual harassment, or sexual bullying.
• Please refer to Appendix 10.6.4A, Rules on the Prevention and Handling of Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, or Bullying on the Campus of NCUE.
• Please refer to Appendix 10.6.4B, Regulations on the Prevention and Handling of Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, or Sexual Bullying on the Campus of the Ministry of Education.
2. Measures for the Prevention, Complaints, and Handling of Sexual Harassment
In addition, in order to safeguard the working rights and interests of the faculty and staff, provide a working environment free from sexual harassment, as well as prevent and handle sexual harassment and protect the rights and interests of parties concerned, the ‘Measures for the Prevention, Complaint s, and Handling of Sexual Harassment’ has been formulated. Its legal basis is the Ministry of Labour’s ‘Regulations for Establishing Measures of Prevention, Complaints, and Punishment of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace’.
• Please refer to Appendix 10.6.4C, Measures for the Prevention, Complaints , and Handling of Sexual Harassment in NCUE.
• Please refer to Appendix 10.6.4D, ‘Regulations for Establishing Measures of Prevention, Complaints, and Punishment of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace’ of the Ministry of Labour.
• Please refer to Appendix 10.6.4E, Methods for announcing the ‘Measures for the Prevention, Complaints, and Handling of Sexual Harassment’ in NCUE and specific practices of prevention and control measures.
3. Cases of sexual assault, sexual harassment, or bullying on campus handled by NCUE in 2021
List of incidents of sexual assault, sexual harassment, or sexual bullying on campus handled by NCUE in 2021.
Category |
Status of incidents |
Quantity (cases) |
True cases |
Incidents in which the investigation procedure was executed after an application for investigation |
Suspected sexual assault and sexual harassment case |
4 |
4 |
Incidents not under the jurisdiction of NCUE |
Suspected sexual harassment |
5 |
3 |
Incidents for which no suspected victim or suspected culprit was found upon investigation |
Suspected sexual harassment |
3 |
0 |
Total |
12 cases |
7 cases |
4. Holding related study activities
In 2021, NCUE held a total of 81 sessions of study activities related to gender equality education (anti-discrimination and anti-harassment), an increase of 15.7% from 70 sessions in 2020, to publicize the crucial ideas of gender equality education, anti-discrimination, and anti-harassment. A total of 4,295 people participated in these activities, an increase of 25.1% from 3,433 in 2021.
Professor Yi-Han Wang of NCUE’s Department of Guidance and Counseling was invited to lead the screening and sharing of the movie “Kim Ji-young: Born 1982” on May 6, 2021. The living situation of a South Korean woman “Kim Ji-young” served as an inspiration in the discussion of women’s rights, gender discrimination, and sexual harassment. The movie echoes the content of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), aiming to examine the issues of women’s rights, gender discrimination, and sexual harassment. NCUE faculty members, staff, and students participated enthusiastically in the event, and a total of 129 people showed up. On May 19, 2021, in the online event “LGBT People Should Have the Right to Walk in the Daylight: A Brief Talk About LGBT Literature and Movies in Taiwan,” writer Hikaru Lee analyzed the discrimination and harassment faced by LGBT people in their daily lives from the perspectives of LGBT literature and movies in Taiwan, and discussed ways to cope and improve. NCUE faculty members, staff, and students participated enthusiastically in the event, and a total of 150 people showed up.
• Please refer to Appendix 10.6.4F, Statistics and records of study activities related to gender equality education (anti-discrimination and anti-harassment) in NCUE in 2021.