China News Agency, Beijing, April 6 (Reporter Zhang Su) Including women who have suffered domestic violence, sexual assault, abduction and trafficking and other illegal and criminal acts, five types of women who have entered the procuratorial case-handling process and meet the conditions for assistance, the procuratorial organs shall As a key target, cooperate with the Women's Federation to increase aid and assistance.

A document disclosed by China's Supreme People's Procuratorate on the 6th stated this.

  From March to the end of this year, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the All-China Women's Federation jointly launched a special campaign "Focus on Women in Difficulties and Strengthen Special Judicial Assistance".

  In this activity, elderly women whose support obligors have no ability to support or who have no support in fact, women who are seriously ill or disabled, and rural women who are targeted for poverty-return prevention monitoring are also targeted by the prosecution as key objects of assistance.

  For women who have difficulties in life due to civil tort cases such as employment gender discrimination and workplace sexual harassment, which are difficult to solve through legal channels, and women who have real difficulties in life due to domestic violence lawsuits for divorce, the prosecution will cooperate with the women's federation to organize Carry out assistance work.

  The Supreme People's Procuratorate also stated that if a woman being rescued raises minor children, judicial assistance should be carried out at the same time.

In addition, in carrying out judicial assistance, it is necessary to respect the legal rights of women in difficulty, such as the personal dignity, the right to reputation, and the right to privacy, to avoid causing "secondary harm".

  From 2000 to 2021, the number of people prosecuted by Chinese prosecutors for abducting and trafficking in women and children has dropped from 14,458 to 1,135, an average annual decrease of 11.4%; the number of people prosecuted for buying and selling abducted women and children has increased from 155 to 328.

The Supreme People's Procuratorate emphasized that it will implement the "China Action Plan Against Human Trafficking (2021-2030)", continue to severely and severely prosecute human trafficking crimes, and "resolutely prosecute the crimes of buying, failing to rescue, and obstructing the rescue of abducted and trafficked women and children in accordance with the law and strictly enforce the law. punish".

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