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Legal
System Safeguards Women's Rights and Interests
China,
one of the signatories, acceded to the "Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women"
in 1980. The Chinese Government stipulated a series of laws
and regulations to safeguard women's rights and interests.
The legal system to safeguard women's rights and interests
and promote their development has come into being, with the
Constitution of the PRC as the basis and the Law of the PRC
on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women as
the core. Relative laws include Civil Law, Criminal Law, Electoral
Law, Labour Law, Marriage Law, Compulsory Education Law, Law
on Maternal and Infant Health Care, Law of Succession, Adoption
Law, Trade Union Law, Population and Family Planning Law and
Rural Land Contracting Law.
In this legal system,
the Law of the PRC on the Protection of the Rights and Interests
of Women (LPRCPRIW) is an integrated fundamental one protecting
women's rights and interests in all respects. The LPRCPRIW
adopted at the Fifth Session of the Seventh NPC convened on
April 3, 1992, keeps to the basic principle of sexual equality,
the special protection of women's rights and interests, gradual
improvement of the social security system for women and the
prohibition of any discrimination, maltreatment and persecution
directed at women.
With the promulgation
and implementation of the LPRCPRIW, enforcement regulations
of the
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