A Meeting Held Between Officials from All-China Women’s Federation and Researchers of the Center for Gender and Law Studies of CASS Law Institute

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On the afternoon of November 26, 2018, a delegation of Women’s Rights and Interests Department of All-China Women’s Federation, headed by Ms. Gao Shawei, the director of the Department, visited the Center for Gender and Law Studies of CASS Law Institute and held a meeting with the researchers of the Center.

Professor Chen Su, Director of CASS Law Institute, and Professor Mo Jihong, Director of CASS Institute of International Law, attended the meeting. He extended warm welcome to members of the delegation and gave them a brief introduction to the contributions made by researchers of the two institutes in the research of issues of gender and law, the gender review of laws, the fight against domestic violence legislation, and the legal regulation of gender discrimination in employment and sexual harassment. They pointed out that there has been a very good relationship of cooperation between the two institutes and All-China Women’s Federation, and hoped that such cooperation would be deepened in the future.

At the meeting, Ms. Gao Shawei and other members of the delegation carried out deep-going exchange of opinions and discussion from both theoretical and practical points of view with experts of the Center on the emphases of and difficulties in the current work of promoting gender equality and upholding women’s rights and interests in China.

At the end of the meeting, Professor Xue Ninglan, the director of the Center, made a summarization of the meeting. She thanked the delegation for the extensive and in-depth exchange of opinions, pointed out that her center has a number of experts and scholars dedicated to the research on issues of gender and law, and looked forward to further deepening the cooperation with the Federation in promoting the implementation of the basic state policy of gender equality.

  

Other members of the delegation included Ms. Li Yueyang, Deputy Director of the Women’s Rights and Interests Department of All-China Women’s Federation, and Ms. Yu Xiaoqing and Ms. Guo Ye, two section chiefs of the Department. Also attending the meeting were Professor Xu Hui and Professor Xie Haiding from CASS Law Institute and Professor Sun Shiyan, Professor Qu Xiangfei and Associate Professor Dai Ruijun from CASS Institute of International Law.