Minister of Foreign Affairs Jaushieh Joseph Wu met with over 160 representatives of nongovernmental organizations at a tea reception March 26 at Taipei Guest House in the capital, pledging to continue boosting domestic NGOs’ international participation.

A forum titled “Fostering Women and Girls’ Financial Resilience” was held March 13 at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, spotlighting Taiwan’s efforts to achieve gender parity, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The 68th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) will be held in New York from March 11 to 22. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of the Republic of China (Taiwan), in cooperation with Taiwanese nongovernmental organizations, has arranged for Taiwan Gender Equality Week (TGEW) to be held in New York at the same time. The priority theme of CSW68 is “accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty

The Taipei International Book Exhibition will get underway Feb. 20 to showcase the vibrancy and diversity of Taiwan’s publishing culture, according to the Ministry of Culture.

Taiwan is committed to cooperating with all World Trade Organization members to support the international body’s work, Taiwan’s permanent mission in Geneva said at the Global Review of Aid for Trade earlier this month.

The Executive Yuan’s Department of Gender Equality (DGE) on Monday published the 2024 Gender at a Glance in R.O.C. (Taiwan) report. In 2023, the nation ranked sixth globally and first in Asia in Taiwan’s first ever inclusion in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Social Institutions and Gender Index.

Engagement with nongovernmental organizations will remain an integral part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ diplomatic work to raise Taiwan’s international profile in 2024, the ministry said Jan. 18.

Taiwan’s nongovernmental organizations are raising the country’s global profile while local branch offices of overseas counterparts boost international collaboration, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Dec. 14.