BEIJING (Reuters) – 2 years earlier, Zhou Xiaoxuan publicly accused one of China’s most recognizable people of searching and forcibly kissing her, triggering a firestorm in a country that did not define unwanted sexual advances as a legal offense.
FILE PHOTO: Chinese officials and delegates go to the opening session of the National Individuals’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China May 22,2020 REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/File Picture
Last week Zhou and lots of other women who began China’s #MeToo movement won a little success when the nation’s parliament enacted legislation that for the very first time specifies actions that can constitute sexual harassment.
The referral in the brand-new civil code, authorized on Thursday by a session of the National Individuals’s Congress, is mainly a symbolic step. While it holds schools, businesses and other organisations responsible for preventing and handling sexual harassment, it does not lay out guidelines for enforcement.
” The civil code is a big step, but a lot more will need to be fleshed out,” said Darius Longarino, a senior fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. “After all, U.S. sexual-harassment law is still develo