Taiwan’s youth volunteer corps scheme in limbo over wartime combat fears

Taiwan’s youth volunteer corps scheme in limbo over wartime combat fears

Authorities in Taiwan are under pressure to scrap a two-decade-old provision that allows high school students to be enlisted into wartime non-combat service. Under the island’s All-Out Defence Mobilisation Readiness Act of 2001, minors can be mobilised for the non-combat youth service corps during conflicts and natural disasters. But after volunteer consent forms for the … Read more