{"id":39972,"date":"2021-12-21T16:56:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T07:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/21\/china-laws-womens-rights-sexual-harassment"},"modified":"2021-12-21T16:56:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T07:56:31","slug":"china-mulls-bolstering-laws-on-womens-rights-and-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39972","title":{"rendered":"China mulls bolstering laws on women\u2019s rights and sexual harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Draft safeguards would mark major development in women\u2019s rights as China faces calls for gender equality<\/p>\n<p>China is considering strengthening its laws on women\u2019s rights to provide more robust protection against gender-based discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>The draft regulations come amid the rise of a nascent #MeToo movement in China, which activists say has been hampered by the country\u2019s strict regime of censorship and oppression against all signs of dissent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/21\/china-laws-womens-rights-sexual-harassment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draft safeguards would mark major development in women\u2019s rights as China faces calls for gender equalityChina is considering strengthening its laws on women\u2019s rights to provide more robust protection against gender-based discrimination and sexual haras&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,646,336,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-gender","category-sexual-harassment","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39973,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39972\/revisions\/39973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}