Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation (TWRF) was formally registered in September of 1987 to provide legal consultation and counseling to girls and women in the sex trade, and to help them return to their families and society.
TWRF has diversified its mission over its short existence to address the rapid changes that have occurred in Taiwanese society. The foundation’s core values, however, have not changed; where there are women in trouble, the TWRF seeks to provide individual assistance and to spur on reform in society as a whole.
TWRF is divided in to four mission groups to address the issues concerning victims of human trafficking, Japanese Military Sexual Slaves( sometimes knows as “comfort women”-women forced to prostitution by the Japanese military during WWII),and human trafficking (women smuggled to Taiwan to work in the sex industry),victims of domestic violence, and children who witness domestic violence.