Guo Jianmei

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Guo Jianmei (2011)

Guo Jianmei ( Chinese  郭建梅 , Pinyin Guō Jiànméi , born October 1961 ) is a Chinese lawyer and human rights activist . After a career at the Ministry of Justice, the National Women's Association, and the China Bar Association, Guo founded a women's rights non-governmental organization , which she headed until January 2016. Guo Jianmei is married to the writer Liu Zhenyun .

Career

Guo was born into the family of a teacher in the impoverished area of ​​Hua County, Henan Province . When she noticed the poverty, underdevelopment and violation of women's rights in her home village, it was the impetus for her lifelong commitment to improve women's rights in China.

At 18, Guo attended Beijing Law School , where she graduated in 1983 with a law degree . She then worked in the Ministry of Justice as an editor for a magazine of the Chinese Bar Association and for the National Women's Association , an influential mass organ of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Lawyers Association . During this time, Guo traveled to at least 18 provinces to research the situation of women. She came to the conclusion that although the legislation includes equal rights for women, the Communist Party still decides in legal cases. According to Guo, many things would be better if only half of the existing laws were applied.

In 1995, Guo attended the 4th International Forum for Women Lawyers and the United Nations International World Conference on Women in Beijing, where she met with women's rights activists and foreign non-governmental organizations. In the same year, she resigned from the government and with others founded the Legal Research and Service Center for Women (Zhong-Ze Women's Counseling Center) at the Law Faculty of Beijing University, which served as the institution for the center. Guo was the responsible director of this center until February 2016.

In 2001, Guo participated in a revision of the Chinese Marriage Law and in 2003 in the enforcement of the Enforcement Order for Legal Aid. She published eight books and was the editor of three volumes of the people's legal collection “Everyday Life Law” and the “Guide to Legal Aid Cases for Women”.

In March 2016, the Law on the Protection of Women came into force and aims to prevent violence in the family. Guo remarked to the standard , that there is "no implementing regulation" and to this "progressive" law, making it as could "never given the realities of China to use" come in so many others. Guo Jianmei calls these laws "sleeping beauties".

Legal research and service center for women

The Women's Legal Research and Service Center was the first non-profit, non-governmental organization to specialize in providing legal aid to women in China . Since it was founded in 1995, the center had developed into an influential force in safeguarding the rights and interests of women. By 2011 the center had provided over 80,000 legal consultations. One of those cases that attracted public attention was the case of 21-year-old Li Ruirui, who was raped by a security guard in a " black prison ". In court, Li won at first distance, which informed the public, among other things, of the existence of black prisons.

In 2010, Peking University officially distanced itself from this center, which is why it was no longer affiliated with the university, but "attached" to the law faculty. Guo suspected "pressure from above" as some of the cases could have been too explosive.

In January 2016, Guo announced on the website woman-legalaid.org.cn that the Zhong-Ze Women's Counseling Center would close on February 1st without her being allowed to provide any further information. Hillary Clinton tweeted on January 31, “What was true of Beijing in 1995 is still true today: women's rights are human rights. This center should remain. I stand by Guo. "

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jianmei Guo: If laws cannot protect poor and helpless persons like my litigant, why should we lawyers exist? ( Memento of March 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Peace Women Across the Globe, September 28, 2011, webarchive.org, accessed November 18, 2016.
  2. ^ A b Institute of Contemporary Observation, 2006 'Conference on CSR & Sustainable Development ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), ico-china.org, October 2006, accessed on November 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Peer Junker, interview with women's rights lawyer Guo Jianmei , Heinrich Böll Foundation, February 21, 2011, accessed on November 23, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b Guo Jianmei: Patron of the Weak ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), womenofchina.cn, March 12, 2007, accessed on November 18, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b Jonny Erling, First Law Against Domestic Violence in China , Der Standard, March 1, 2016, accessed November 23, 2016.
  6. ↑ 1000 PeaceWomen Worldwide. Jianmei Guo , accessed on: April 14, 2018, (German digital version of: Verein 1000 Frauen für den Nobel Peace Prize (ed.): 1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe , Series: Contrast Book, Verlag Scalo, Zurich 2005).
  7. ↑ a b American Women for International Understanding , AWIU, awiu.org, accessed November 18, 2016.
  8. ↑ Winners of the Right Livelihood Award 2019 announced. In: rightlivelihoodaward.org. The Right Livelihood Foundation, September 25, 2019, accessed September 25, 2019 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Guo is the family name here, Jianmei is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Guo, Jianmei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 郭建梅 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese lawyer and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Hua, Henan Province