{"id":1866,"date":"2018-07-27T15:27:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T07:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bpw-taiwan.360eyeweb.com\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2018-08-16T22:57:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T14:57:49","slug":"founding-president-of-bpw-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bpw-taiwan.org.tw\/?p=1866&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Founding President"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Founding President Lu Hsiu-lien Annette<\/span><\/h4>\n

 
\nExperience:
\n13th Magistrate of Taoyuan County (Dec 20, 1997- May 20, 2000)
\n10th Vice President of Taiwan (May 20,2000-May 20, 2004)
\n11th Vice President of Taiwan (May 20,2004-May 20, 2008)
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Lu Hsiu-lien Annette, founder of BPW-Taiwan, was born on June 7, 1944 in Taoyuan, Taiwan. After graduating from the National Taiwan University College of Law, she received a master\u2019s degree in comparative law from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1971 and a master of laws degree from Harvard University in 1978.<\/h6>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Later, she spent another 3 yeas at Harvard as a Research Fellow. In the 1970s, Lu started the Feminist Movement in Taiwan, her efforts included \u201cPioneer Publishing House\u201d and a \u201cProtect You Hot-Line Service.\u201d In 1979, Lu delivered a 20 minute speech at the International Human Rights Day Rally in Kaohsiung City in which she criticized Taiwan\u2019s authoritarian government.<\/h6>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 This speech led to her arrest on the charge of sedition, for which she was sentenced to 12 years in prison along with other leading freedom fighters. In 1985, after spending almost six years in prison, Lu was granted medical parole for thyroid cancer. Upon her release, Lu did not stay quiet for long. Instead, she continued to campaign for women\u2019s rights, democracy, and international recognition for her country.<\/h6>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In 1993, she founded the Taiwan International Alliance to promote Taiwan\u2019s bid for membership in the United Nations and won a seat in the Legislative Yuan, where she served as co-chair of the legislature\u2019s Foreign Relations Committee.\u00a0While in office, she continued to promote women\u2019s rights, organizing and hosting the Global Summit of Women in 1994 and the Feminist Summit for Global Peace in 1995.<\/h6>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In the following years, Lu\u2019s presence on Taiwan\u2019s political scene grew. In 1996, then-president Lee Teng-hui appointed her national policy advisor. In 1997, she became the first female magistrate of Taoyuan County, subsequently winning reelection. On March 18, 2000, she was elected Taiwan\u2019s tenth vice president, thus becoming the first female vice president in Taiwan\u2019s history.<\/h6>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 She won reelection in 2004, and, during her eight years in office, made the promotion of gender equality and social justice her top priorities. Lu\u2019s efforts received international recognition in 2001, when she became the first woman to receive the World Peace Corps Mission\u2019s World Peace Prize. A few years later in 2005, for the purpose to promote her advocacy of \u201csoft power,\u201d she founded the Democratic Pacific Union, an international organization committed to enhancing cooperation among the democratic governments of the Pacific region.<\/h6>\n

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