Legislator Huang Jie (黃捷), chair of the legislature’s Women’s Sports Diplomacy Promotion Committee, and International Working Group (IWG) on Women and Sport representative Elizabeth Pike today signed a declaration to increase opportunities for women in sports.
After hosting the first World Conference on Women and Sport in 1994, the IWG on Women and Sport issued the Brighton plus Helsinki 2014 Declaration on Women in Sport, aimed at increasing opportunities for women worldwide to participate in sports.
The sixth World Conference on Women and Sport was held in Helsinki in 2014, with the theme “Lead the change — Be the change.”
Photo: Screen grab from Huang Jie’s Facebook
This expanded the goal of gender equality in sport to include social, school and youth sports, and led to the 2014 declaration.
Minister of Sports Lee Yang(李洋) said that the former Sports Administration and the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee, together with 28 Taiwanese sports organizations, signed the declaration in 2020, symbolizing Taiwan’s efforts to advance women’s sports.
Moving forward, the Ministry of Sports would continue to enhance sports diplomacy, support women participating in international sports events, align with the global sports community and create a more diverse and inclusive sporting environment, Lee said.
The ministry would also discuss future activities with the IWG, he said.
Huang said that the Legislative Yuan’s Women’s Sports Diplomacy Promotion Committee has two main goals.
The first is to ensure that women in sports receive equal and fair protections, and the other is to increase Taiwan’s global visibility through sports, Huang said.
This aligns with the goals of the Brighton Declaration, she said.
Women’s sports in Taiwan still has a lot of room for improvement, Huang said.
Taiwanese athletes won two world championships last month: the Taipei Dong Yuan Elementary School baseball team won the Little League World Series, and the Beitou Junior High School girls’ softball team won the U16 World Series, she said.
The committee hopes to work together with the Ministry of Sports to achieve sports equality — one of the ministry’s founding goals — so that sports equality becomes the pride of Taiwan, Huang said.
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