《消除對婦女一切形式歧視公約》在臺灣：成為協同共作的紡織針
作者：葉德蘭（國立臺灣大學外國與文學系教授）、陳金燕（國立彰化師範大學輔導與諮商學系退休教授）
摘要：
被視為國際婦女人權法典的《消除對婦女一切形式歧視公約》（以下簡稱CEDAW）成立近30 年後才正式引進臺灣，與我國已經相當完備的性別平等法規措施互動亦已15 年。本文探討在地婦女運動如何制定戰略，以獲得行政部門（行政院）和國會（立法院）的支持通過和實施CEDAW，並引發了隨後其他四項核心人權條約在臺灣成功施行。由於臺灣長期被排除在主要的國際政府間組織之外，無法向人權條約機構提交國家報告，臺灣調整了聯合國消除對婦女歧視委員會人權監測程序，並根據聯合國最近發布的一般性建議，制定了獨特的CEDAW 國家報告審查週期和首創的定期培訓、審查計畫。在此過程中，中央和地方性別平等推動者採用多層次和類別的策略形塑了臺灣對國際規範和標準的理解和實踐。這種引發變革的公私協力構架，融合了跨國社會行動主義文獻中政策模仿、引進和競爭擴散等概念，在當今全球化即是在地化的社區發展中，可為更多的跨界社會變革提供參考。
關鍵字
婦女運動、《消除對婦女一切形式歧視公約》、政策擴散
Sowing Seeds of CEDAW in an Ostracized Land: A Loom of Synergy
Author：Theresa Der-lan Yeh（Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University）、Chin-yen Chen（Retired Professor, Department of Guidance & Counseling, National Changhua University of Education）
Abstract：
Taiwan has long prided itself on the progress of gender equality; yet the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), often regarded as the international bill of rights for women, was not formally introduced to the island until 2007, almost 30 years after its establishment in 1979. The central question of this chapter explores how local women’s rights campaigns strategize to gain support from the administration (the Executive Yuan) and the parliament (the Legislative Yuan) in adopting and implementing CEDAW, initiating a series of the subsequent adoption of four other major human rights treaties in Taiwan. Excluded from major global intergovernmental organizations, Taiwan has adjusted the UN human rights monitoring procedures and produced a unique cycle of CEDAW country report review as well as a first-of-its-kind regular law review programme pursuant to the most recent general recommendations issued by United Nations. Along the path, multiple levels and categories of the strategies employed by gender equality activists across the national and local settings to shape Taiwan’s understanding and realization of international norms and standards are identified. This process of feminist framing of a variety of change-inducing practices, illustrating an amalgamation of the notions of policy mimicry, domestic transposition and competitive diffusion in the transnational social activism literature, might inform and inspire more crossborder social changes in today’s increasingly glocalized communities.
Keywords
Women’s movement, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Policy diffusion