日韩精品久久一区二区三区_亚洲色图p_亚洲综合在线最大成人_国产中出在线观看_日韩免费_亚洲综合在线一区

Global EditionASIA 中文雙語(yǔ)Fran?ais
Lifestyle
Home / Lifestyle / News

Civil code's focus on sexual harassment is a sign of big hope

By Siva Sankar | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2020-06-09 07:35
Share
Share - WeChat

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage across the world, wreaking havoc, casting a long shadow on everything, and even raising doubts about humanity's future (besides creating news fatigue). Can we simply shrug it off, take a breather, and discuss some other topic?

Only a weighty alternative would justify what might be perceived as a digression or impertinence. Latest screaming headlines and in-depth stories suggest there's no dearth of "big" issues: climate change and environment, economic inequality and poverty alleviation, de-globalization, protectionism, security and sovereignty, civil rights and human rights, and civil code and sexual harassment.

For the first time, China's legal framework has included an explicit definition of sexual harassment and will enshrine it in the country's first civil code, which was adopted by the nation's top legislature on May 28.

In my home country India, another billion-plus nation, a debate on the proposed Uniform Civil Code has been raging for decades, with no logical conclusion-enaction of a new law-still in sight.

The proposed UCC would be part of Article 44 of the directive principles in the Indian Constitution, whose aim is to protect vulnerable groups from discrimination and ensure harmony among the country's diverse cultural groups. The proposed UCC is expected to replace disparate personal laws based on cultural customs and religious faiths that govern interpersonal relationships and related matters.

It seems China's first civil code is making headlines also because the #MeToo campaign made (the now clearly defined) sexual harassment a global issue.

But, clear definitions and codes alone may not be adequate to achieve the desired results, especially in civil matters concerning attitudes, habits, misguided beliefs and prejudices, as borne out by the front-page lead story of China Daily on June 1.

If scores of cities in the United States are erupting in fiery violence in spite of local lockdowns, and if US National Guard troops had to be deployed to keep order, it's because one person ill-treated, and appears to have caused the death of, another person.

Are we, as individuals, communities, societies and economies, under-evolved and faltering? Technological advances have created comforts, conveniences and pleasures all right, but they also appear to have blindsided us, sweeping some long-pending fundamental wrongs under the carpet. Those things the pandemic is now "exposing", as if our true colors were some photographic film negative, brought into light inexorably, until the final print's inescapable, digitally unenhanced reality punches us in the face.

So, it's commendable that a back-to-basics movement-the stress on new definitions and codes-seems to be fading into both public consciousness and the list of top priorities everywhere. A caveat would be in order though: Strong deterrents against misuse of new laws and codes are essential too.

Sexual harassment has somehow come to mean exploitation or ill-treatment of, or crimes against, women by men. My sense is, laws alone won't bring about positive change. For instance, capital punishment, naming-and-shaming, media exposes, online outrage, offline protests and jail terms have all proven to be inadequate in eradicating social evils like gender crimes, prejudice, chauvinism, and commodification of human anatomy.

But there's hope. Global discourse has been spotlighting good societies' long-neglected fundamentals like education, public health, women empowerment, social harmony and enlightened parenting.

Most Popular
Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
 
主站蜘蛛池模板: 欧美激情一区二区亚洲专区 | 91国内精品久久久久免费影院 | 欧美成人福利 | 成人福利在线视频 | 欧美福利 | 综合久久久久 | 久久久这里有精品999 | 亚洲在线一区 | 一区亚洲| 国产视频成人 | 91精品国产免费久久 | 久久精品| av日韩在线免费观看 | 久久久一区二区三区不卡 | 国产午夜亚洲精品第一区 | 午夜小电影 | 超级在线牛碰碰视频 | 免费很黄很色裸乳在线观看 | 一级在线观看视频 | 99黄色网 | 成人国产精品一区二区毛片在线 | 在线观看特色大片免费网站 | 国产精品免费观看视频 | 91国内精品久久久久免费影院 | 日韩黄色一级毛片 | 亚洲国产精品久久 | 五月综合色 | 五月婷婷中文 | 牛牛精品国内免费一区 | 久久97久久 | 欧美成人a∨高清免费观看 毛片特级 | 欧洲色阁中文字幕 | 一区二区三区在线 | 国产福利不卡视频在免费 | 免费a级在线观看播放 | 欧美日韩亚洲一区二区三区在线观看 | 日本理论片好看理论片 | 国产精品国产精品国产专区不卡 | 在线观看网 | 中文在线一区 | 日韩一区二区三区视频 |