Chinanews.com, March 6. According to the website of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, on the eve of the "March 8" International Women's Day, the Supreme People's Procuratorate issued the "Notice on Implementing the Newly Revised Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests" to Effectively Protect Women's Rights and Interests. (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice") clearly stipulates that the procuratorial organs should do a good job in supporting prosecutions, administrative prosecutions, public interest litigation prosecutions, punishing crimes, judicial assistance, and governance of litigation sources, and put forward specific requirements for the procuratorial organs to comprehensively protect women's rights and interests.
The "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests" was revised and adopted at the 37th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress, and will come into force on January 1 this year.
The "Notice" pointed out that the newly revised Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests is a special legal norm for the protection of women in my country and an important part of the national human rights protection system.
Procuratorial organs at all levels must conscientiously study and implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress, and fully understand the significance of the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests in promoting gender equality and women's all-round development, giving full play to the role of women in building a socialist modern country in an all-round way, and promoting socialist core values. of significance.
The "Notice" clarifies that procuratorial organs at all levels should fully implement the relevant provisions of the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests, further increase support for prosecution, strengthen supervision of administrative litigation and administrative non-litigation enforcement cases involving women's legitimate rights and interests, and fully implement public interest litigation. The procuratorial function is to severely punish crimes that violate women's life and health, personal freedom, and personal dignity in accordance with the law, carry out in-depth judicial assistance for women involved in cases, and conduct in-depth analysis of the deep-seated reasons for violations of women's rights and interests in conjunction with judicial handling, and promote the governance of sources of litigation.
The "Notice" requires that procuratorial organs at all levels should combine procuratorial functions to formulate effective measures to ensure the implementation of relevant requirements.
Strengthen the connection and cooperation between the "four major prosecutors" and the "ten major businesses", strengthen the linkage and cooperation with other relevant agencies and organizations, and make concerted efforts to jointly promote the implementation of a government-led, coordinated and socially involved working mechanism for women's rights and interests.