Duration
January to December, 2005
Aim
Popularize the notion of gender through publicity of Land Contract Law and case-dealing to promote legal consciousness and gender awareness among leaders and the masses and enhance legal protection of women’s land rights.
Goal
● Publicize the Land Contract Law to promote legal consciousness
● Conduct training on the Land Contract Law with a gender perspective to urge the leaders and masses to lawfully protect women’s land rights consciously
● Handle infringement of women’s land rights to safeguard women’s enjoyment of their land rights
Activities
● Exhibit mobile posters (on vehicles) to 17 towns and villages in the county to publicize the Land Contract Law and the Women’s Law
● 5 TV lectures
● 18 times law publicity activities on market day jointly with the county Rural Working Committee and Rural Economy Center, 10, 000 copies of pamphlet of the Land Contract Law, 7, 000 copies of manual on women’s land right protection and 2, 300 person/time site counseling have been provided.
● 78 training activities have been conducted on the Land Contract Law involving 950 cadres and 3,000 villagers
● 21 cases were handled
● Conducted research in women’s land rights issues and sponsored seminars on policy advocacy and judicial improvement jointly with Peking University Law School
Achievements
● Awareness of lawful protection of rural women’s rights is created which encourages women to actively resort to legal protection
● Legal consciousness is promoted among rural cadres so that they can abide by the law in dealing with women’s land rights conflicts
● The county Party’s Committee and the government issued Opinions on Practical Protection of Farmers’ Lawful Rights and Properly Solving Conflicts over Land and Trees Contracts to actively resolve women’s land rights issues. The county Women’s Federation was involved to be in charge in the problem of women’s land rights.
● Representative cases of women’s land rights have been handled successfully, where the court has made quite favorable decisions for women.