At the press conference of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress held on the morning of the 24th, Zang Tiewei, spokesperson of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, introduced that the 37th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress will continue to review the draft amendment to the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests (three drafts for review).
Zang Tiewei introduced that the third draft review plan intends to make some modifications:
emphasizes that the country takes necessary measures to promote gender equality between men and women and eliminate gender discrimination. It is clarified that the government should pay attention to and strengthen the protection of women's rights and interests, and strengthen the responsibilities of the government and its relevant departments. Implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech and strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of poor women, elderly women, disabled women and other disadvantaged groups. Regulate illegal acts reported by media infringement of women's legal rights and protect women's privacy and reputation rights. clearly states that human resources and social security departments can join forces with trade unions and women's federations to meet with employers to protect women's labor and social security rights. Improve the scope of public interest litigation matters.
Zang Tiewei said that the main ideas of the revision of the Women's Rights Protection Law include:
Adhere to the leadership of the Party. The revised draft clarifies the Party’s leadership in protecting women’s rights and interests, fully implements the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech on strengthening women’s work and safeguarding women’s rights and interests, and resolutely implements the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee on upholding equality between men and women and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of women and children.
comprehensively summarizes experience. Timely transform successful practices that adapt to the actual needs of women's rights protection, prove effective in practice, and have relatively consistent understandings in all aspects into legal norms, and continuously consolidate and develop the achievements made in women's cause.
insists on problem-oriented. Based on in-depth research, we will focus on studying and solving pain points and difficult problems in the fields of women's rights protection such as sexual harassment and gender discrimination in employment, actively respond to the challenges brought by adjustment of birth policy, provide support for women to better take into account both reproductive and cause, and strive to optimize the women's development environment.
is based on the actual situation of the country. We must insist on starting from reality and not copying Western system practices. Under China's traditional cultural background, social background and legal system, analyze and solve problems in the field of protection of women's rights and interests in China, and continuously improve the system of protection of women's rights that is in line with China's national conditions and is compatible with the current development stage.
"On the basis of the current law, the revised draft makes more comprehensive and systematic provisions on the protection of women's rights and interests in politics, personal and personality, culture and education, labor and social security, property, marriage and family, etc., to ensure that women enjoy extensive, full, real, concrete, effective and effective rights and interests in accordance with the law, and provide more solid legal protection for promoting equality between men and women and the comprehensive development of women." Zang Tiewei said.
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Manuscript source｜China Youth Daily Hecheng Release Comprehensive
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