To promote the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation, women are an important force, and children are the new force in the future. Protecting the legitimate rights and interests of women and children is an inevitable requirement for building a modern socialist country and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has attached great importance to protecting the legitimate rights and interests of women and children. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) clarified the task and requirements of "improving the system for protecting the legitimate rights and interests of women and children". In order to achieve this goal, it is urgent to vigorously promote the five major grasps: grasping basic guarantees, key links, outstanding problems, key groups, and source governance.
To promote the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation, women are an important force, and children are the new force in the future. Protecting the legitimate rights and interests of women and children, promoting gender equality and the all-round development of women and children are the inevitable requirements for building a modern socialist country and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, "adhering to the basic national policy of equality between men and women and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of women and children" has been written into the report of the Party Congress for three consecutive times and has been regarded as an important part of governance. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) further clarified the task requirements of "improving the system for protecting and improving the legitimate rights and interests of women and children" in "Improving the System for Safeguarding and Improving People's Livelihood". The realization of this goal urgently needs to be vigorously promoted around the five major grasps.
Grasp the basic safeguards, and consolidate the basic support of the legal system
Persist in enacting, reforming, repealing, and interpreting at the same time, drafting and revising special laws and related laws to protect the lawful rights and interests of women and children in a timely manner, continuously improving legislation to protect the lawful rights and interests of women and children, and consolidating and completing the basic support of the legal system for protecting the lawful rights and interests of women and children. On the one hand, it is necessary to speed up legislation in areas where the legitimate rights and interests of women and children are protected. For example, legislation in the field of preschool education, the legislative plan of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress incorporated the "People's Republic of China Preschool Education Law" into the legislative norms, and heard a report on the revision of the draft preschool education law at the 10th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress on August 25, 2024, further highlighting the protection of the rights and interests of preschool children and filling the legislative gap in the field of preschool education. On the other hand, it is necessary to keep pace with the times and revise special or relevant laws and regulations on the protection of the lawful rights and interests of women and children. For example, after the revision of the "People's Republic of China Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests", all localities have improved local regulations related to and supporting the "People's Republic of China Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests" with high quality and efficiency, and promptly completed special clean-up work related to local regulations related to the protection of women's rights and interests, to ensure that local regulations on the protection of the lawful rights and interests of women and children are consistent with the spirit of higher-level laws.
Grasp the key links to ensure that the policy is accurate and targeted
The protection of the lawful rights and interests of women and children at the grassroots level is a key link in improving the protection of the lawful rights and interests of women and children. The work of safeguarding the rights and interests of women and children should be done on a regular basis, on a regular basis, and at the grassroots level. On the one hand, it is necessary to adhere to the demand orientation, deeply understand the thoughts and hopes of grassroots women and the urgent needs of women's work, identify the focus of the protection of the lawful rights and interests of women and children at the grassroots level, promote more resources and services to the grassroots level, and ensure that policies to protect the lawful rights and interests of women and children are precise and targeted. On the other hand, it is necessary to improve diversified grassroots governance models to empower the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of women and children. Make good use of the multi-subject participation model of social governance, increase the breadth and depth of the "Grid + Women's Federation" participation in social governance, and resolve the problem of hindering the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of women and children at the grassroots level; Establish new models of women's federation organizations in new areas such as new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups, to achieve full coverage of the protection of the lawful rights and interests of women and children, follow the online mass line, and truly improve the protection of the lawful rights and interests of women and children; Make good use of village-level Party and Mass Service Centers and other grass-roots management service platforms, and increase awareness of the risks of lawful rights and interests through multiple channels, so as to avoid illegal infringement of women and children.
Grasp the outstanding problems, and strive to solve the stubborn diseases that affect and infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of women and children
Persisting in being problem-oriented and striving to resolve prominent problems that affect and infringe upon the lawful rights and interests of women and children is the top priority in improving the system for protecting the lawful rights and interests of women and children, and directly affects the effectiveness of the protection of the lawful rights and interests of women and children. With the improvement of people's living standards, the environment for the survival and development of women and children is getting better and better, but due to long-term historical and cultural influences, there are still difficulties and problems in the development and protection of the rights and interests of women and children: such as the development of female talents, the protection of rural women's land rights and interests, the rights and interests of left-behind and migrant women, domestic violence, etc. To improve the protection of the lawful rights and interests of women and children is to persist in being problem-oriented and focus on solving the above problems. On the one hand, it is necessary to rely on the joint efforts of functional departments to force and promote. Strictly implement a mandatory reporting system for cases of violations against minors jointly established by the nine departments, and perform the main function of protecting the lawful rights and interests of minors. For nine types of situations that shall be reported, such as "sexual assault, abuse, bullying, abandonment, or trafficking", where the relevant reporting entities discover in the course of their work that minors have suffered or are suspected of having suffered unlawful violations, or are at risk of unlawful violations, they shall immediately report or report to the public security organs, ensuring that crimes against minors are promptly intervened, severely punished, and effectively prevented. On the other hand, it is necessary to rely on the joint efforts of the government and society. While giving full play to the functions and roles of women's federations in representing and preserving women's lawful rights and interests, actively promote mechanisms for linking judicial protections with administrative, family, school, and community protections, build mechanisms for protecting the lawful rights and interests of women and children with the participation of multiple entities, and promote the establishment of cooperation mechanisms between women's federations and judicial organs, to comprehensively rectify key violations and crimes such as domestic violence and sexual assault; Continue to promote procuratorial organs to use high-quality legal supervision to help protect women's rights and interests, promote the implementation and re-implementation of the "No. 1 Procuratorial Recommendation", and severely punish crimes of sexual assault against children; Strengthen systems for special judicial protections for minors, and so forth.
Focus on key groups and provide high-quality and efficient public services for vulnerable groups
Low-income women, elderly women, women with disabilities and other women in difficulty, migrant children, and left-behind children are the key groups in need of special care and assistance in the protection of the rights and interests of women and children. Protecting the lawful rights and interests of key groups of women and children is the bottom line for improving the protection of the lawful rights and interests of women and children. On the one hand, it is necessary to rely on public legal service platforms to provide high-quality and efficient public legal services for key groups in the protection of the rights and interests of women and children. Provide convenient, efficient, equal and inclusive public legal services for low-income women, elderly women, women with disabilities, single-parent mothers, left-behind children, migrant children, etc., and promote high-quality legal aid and judicial aid to truly serve vulnerable groups. On the other hand, it is necessary to rely on the basic public service system to provide inclusive, basic and comprehensive livelihood guarantees for low-income women, elderly women, disabled women and other women in difficulty, migrant children, and left-behind children. For example, the serious illness insurance and medical assistance system, and the social security system for the disabled.
We should grasp the source of governance and strive to solve the problem at the source
Improving systems for protecting the lawful rights and interests of women and children is rooted in the source, including the formulation of policies and regulations and the governance of the source of problems that impede the protection of rights and interests. On the one hand, it is necessary to strengthen the gender equality assessment mechanism of laws and policies, continue to promote the standardized construction and effective operation of the gender equality assessment mechanism of laws and policies, fully consider the actual differences between the sexes and the special interests of women when promulgating laws, formulating policies, formulating plans, and deploying work, and introduce policies and regulations that hinder the protection of the lawful rights and interests of women and children at the source. On the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen the governance of the sources that hinder the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of women and children. Through the establishment of a team of experts on the protection of women and minors, relevant departments such as education, justice, courts, procuratorates, and public security are to carry out special actions to protect the rights and interests of women and children from multiple perspectives such as the discovery of problems, the protection of rights in typical cases, and the resolution of conflicts and disputes, striving to solve problems at the source and in their initial state, so as to achieve early detection, rapid handling, and early resolution of problems.
Source/China Women's Daily
Authors/Huang Ting, Director of the Women's Theory Teaching and Research Department of the Party School of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Special Researcher of the Party School Base of the Provincial Party Committee of the Hunan Provincial Research Center for the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, and Liu Fang, Lecturer of the Party School of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China
Editor/Liu Bin
Review/Mingfang
Executive Producer/Qiao Hong