Oct. 30 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China has approved this Sunday a law of historic scope on the rights of women, which redefines their status within society and becomes the recipient of a series of additional rights against abuse and discrimination. .
The so-called “Law for the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women” reiterates that “women shall enjoy the same rights as men in all aspects of political, economic, cultural, social and family life” and orders governments absolute compliance with all its precepts, as published by the Standing Committee, the main executive body of the CCP on its website.
The Permanent Committee leaves the adoption of “all necessary measures” to “promote equality, eliminate all forms of discrimination and prohibit the exclusion of the legitimate exercise of the various rights and interests of women” in the hands of the Chinese State, in the first revision of the original law in more than 30 years.
Article 21 of Chapter III, which strictly prohibits “abuse, abandonment, mutilation, sale and other acts that violate the rights and interests of life and health of women” specifically addresses the controversy unleashed this summer after that a group of men beat up several women in a restaurant in the Chinese city of Tangshan, in the province of Hebei (north of the country).
Nine men ended up arrested for the Tangshan assault, which left two of the girls with serious injuries, in a crime that adds to the one that occurred in October 2021, when the influential Tibetan Lhamo was killed live by her ex-husband, or the case of a mother of eight who was found chained in a brick shack in Jiangsu province in January.
Images of the beating, captured on video, sparked a strong outcry on social media in a country where, according to a 2021 survey, 30 percent of married women have experienced domestic violence. In fact, the People’s Supreme Court of China, the highest judicial body in the country, demanded in July the toughening of sentences against those convicted of sexist violence, as well as against children or the elderly.
