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Will stronger safeguards protect women in China?
Women’s rights advocates say new laws will raise awareness and help those who have been harassed or illegally discriminated against seek legal recourse.
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In the latest version of the law, it is forbidden to harass women or leak or spread their personal information.
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BEIJING - When undergraduate Lisa Yan, 19, agreed to go out on a blind date in May 2022, she did not expect the meeting to be the start of one of her worst nightmares.
“It was a very uncomfortable first date. During dinner, he kept talking about himself, and touched me inappropriately,” said Ms Yan, a business major at a university in south-eastern Jiangsu province.
