UN Women has worked in China since 1998
Focuses on: Violence against women, leadership and political participation, economic empowerment, and national planning and budgeting
Violence against women – produced Judicial Guidelines on Domestic Violence Cases to be used by all judges in Hunan Province.
“The Guidelines give full consideration to women’s rights when domestic violence cases are tried in court, resulting in greater judicial support for gender justice. The Guidelines contain 21 provisions and address the issue of strengthening judicial protection for female victims of domestic violence.
According to these new Guidelines, a woman in Hunan who killed her husband after long term abuse was sentenced to only three years in jail. Before the Guidelines were established, such cases always resulted in the death penalty or life in prison.
Through the CGF, UN Women is currently working with Women’s Federation of Hunan Province, Hunan Public Security Bureau, and Hunan Police Officers Academy, to issue the first ever handbook for police officers on how to deal with domestic violence cases.”
UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women (EVAW TF) in collaboration with UNFPA, UNESCO, and UNDP.- goal is to decrease domestic violence in China. Focusing on Hunan, Sichuan, and Gansu provinces to create a multi-sector DV response model. Key strategies are:
Utilisation of a rights-based approach aimed at respecting, protecting and fulfilling women’s human rights under CEDAW;
Development of a multi-sector response model – referred to as the DV Prevention and Response Model – for scaling-up to the national level;
Prevention of DV through awareness-raising activities that target men and youth and challenge the underlying social norms that condone DV;
Advocacy aimed at policy and legal reform.
http://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/countries/china/eliminating-violence-against-women
Strengthening Women’s Economic Rights – UN Women wants to partner with the private sector in order to build new venues for the economic and social empowerment of women.
“In 2011, with the support of UN Women under the Youth, Migration and Employment (YEM) Joint Programme, the All-China Women’s Federation put forward an official proposal for a National Regulation on Domestic Service to the National Peoples’ Political and Consultative Congress. The proposal lays out the obligations and rights of employers, domestic workers and service agencies. The protection of (female) domestic workers’ rights is discussed, especially upholding minimum labor standards to ensure worker safety. Workers are ensured a contract, training, as well as social security and insurance and are protected against employers’ violence or sexual harassment.”
http://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/countries/china/strengthening-womens-economic-rights
Gender Responsive Governance and Women’s Political Empowerment –
“UN Women, through its Fund for Gender Equality (or in the framework of the Fund For Gender Equality grant-making process), has partnered with the All-China Women’s Federation to undertake activities promoting both oversight and impact of Chinese women’s political participation under the ‘Equal Political Participation for Chinese Women’ programme. Activities focus on sharing of experiences within the region, capacity building on reporting on progress made towards international agreements on participation as well as how to reflect gender in national budgets, plans and programmes. The aim of the programme is to support the government in achieving its goals on women’s political participation and enhancing abilities to reflect gender awareness in future decision making processes”
http://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/countries/china/gender-responsive-governance-and-womens-political-empowerment