China News Agency, Beijing, June 28 (Huang Yuqin, Liang Xiaohui, Li Jingze) The revised draft of the Minor Protection Law was submitted to the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress for deliberation on the 28th. The second review of the draft fully focuses on real hot issues such as the lack of affection of left-behind children, bullying on campus, and preventing minors from being addicted to the Internet.
In response to the problems of left-behind children who do not receive proper care and lack of family care, the second review draft of the draft further compacts the responsibilities of guardians and refines the relevant measures. The draft stipulates that the entrusted care "should entrust a person with full civil capacity with care ability to take care of it" and "listen to the opinions of minors who have the ability to express their wishes", and stipulates that minors' parents or other guardians and minors and beneficiaries The client contacts and communicates at least once a month to understand the minor's life, study, psychology, etc., and to give minors affectionate care.
Since the preliminary review of the revised draft of the Minor Protection Law in October 2019, how to effectively prevent bullying on campus has been the focus of social attention. In this regard, the second review of the draft further improves the procedures for handling bullying by students. The draft adds provisions that schools should not conceal serious bullying behaviors, and should report to the public security organs and education administrative departments in a timely manner, and cooperate with relevant departments to deal with them according to law.
In the chapter on network protection, in order to increase protection, strengthen the network protection responsibilities of all parties and the supervisory responsibilities of relevant competent departments, the second draft of the draft adds six specific provisions: First, the network information department and other relevant departments should strengthen Supervision and inspection of adult network protection work to provide a safe and healthy network environment for minors; second, schools should strengthen the management of minors using the network to prevent students from indulging in the network; third, parents or other guardians should take measures to avoid failure Adults have access to illegal information and reasonably arrange the time for minors to use the Internet; Fourth, strengthen the protection of minors’ private information; Fifth, the state establishes a unified electronic identity authentication system for minors’ online games, clearly providing the network to minors The time of game service; Sixth, network service providers are required to strengthen the management of users and information, and find illegal information or illegal crimes against minors, and should take corresponding measures in a timely manner.
In response to the problem of reducing the learning burden of minors and not overtime teaching, the draft stipulates that schools shall not occupy national statutory holidays, rest days and winter and summer holidays, and organize minor students to make up classes collectively to increase their learning burden. Kindergartens shall not carry out primary school curriculum education in advance.
The second draft of the draft also regulates the news media’s coverage of cases involving minors, which stipulates that the news media should strengthen the publicity of minors’ protection and conduct public opinion supervision on violations of minors’ legal rights and interests. News media interviews and reports involving minors should be objective, prudent and appropriate, and must not infringe on minors’ reputation, privacy and other legitimate rights and interests.
At the judicial level, the second draft of the draft adds protection measures for juveniles to minors, and simplifies procedures related to handling cases. The draft stipulates that if minor victims and witnesses must appear in court, they shall adopt technical means to protect their privacy; when inquiring minor victims and witnesses, they shall take measures such as simultaneous recording and video recording, and try to complete them at one time; punish minors who have committed crimes according to law After that, no discrimination shall be made in terms of further education and employment. (Finish)