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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Sep. 16, 2008

A Catch-22 on Harrassment

China is one of the most dynamic legal systems in the worlds, and there are clear indications that it is taking sexual harassment more seriously, write Joseph W. Deng, Ute Krudewagen and Jane Peng. - Focus Column

FOCUS COLUMN

By Joseph W. Deng, Ute Krudewagen and Jane Peng

Women in China have traditionally been reluctant to bring a claim for sexual harassment. This may be changing. In June, for example, a People's Republic of China court imposed a jail penalty on an offender convicted of sexual harassment in the workplace, in what the China Daily, a government-affiliated newspaper, reported was the first case decided under the 2005 Women's Protectio...

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