中國首部反家庭暴力法正式面世
China's largely rubber stamp parliament on Sunday passed the country's first law against domestic violence, which covers unmarried people who cohabit but does not protect gay couples, a senior lawmaker said.
週日，中國全國人大常委會通過了全國首部反家庭暴力法。一位高級立法者說，該法保護了未婚同居人羣的權益，但同性伴侶並未被包括在內。China previously did not have a special law covering violence in the family, an issue often ignored to avoid bringing shame upon the family in traditional Chinese culture.
之前，中國從未有特定涉及家庭暴力的法律條例。在中國傳統文化之中，人們常常忽略家庭暴力，以此來避免讓家庭蒙羞。The new law prohibits any form of domestic violence, including psychological abuse, and helps streamline the process for obtaining restraining orders.
新的法律禁止了包括精神虐待在內的任何形式的家庭暴力，並且還簡化了申請禁制令的流程。
According to the Communist Party-run All-China Women's Federation, about one quarter of women have suffered violence in their marriage, though only some 40,000 to 50,000 complaints are registered each year.
根據婦聯披露，約有四分之一的婦女在婚姻中受到家庭暴力的傷害。然而每年只有4萬到5萬人會登記相關投訴。Of the cases reported last year, almost 90 percent involved abuse by husbands of their wives.
在去年報告的案例中，約有90%是丈夫虐待妻子的情況。The new law also covers cohabitation, meaning those who are not related but live together are also included.
新法律同樣也照顧到同居人羣，這表明那些並未結婚但一起居住的人也同樣受到法律保護。Asked at a news conference whether this covered gay couples, Guo Linmao, a member of the Legislative Affairs Commission of parliament's standing committee, said the law had been formulated in response to specific problems discovered.
當在新聞發佈會上被問及新法律是否適用於同性伴侶時，人大常委會法工委社會法室負責人郭林茂稱，該法律是根據現實中出現的家庭暴力的實際情況制定的。"As for homosexuals in our country, we have not yet discovered this form of violence, so to give you a certain answer, it can be said that people who cohabit does not include homosexuals."
“關於同性戀，在我們國家，我們還沒有發現這種暴力的形式，所以給你個確定的回答，應該說共同生活人員不包括同性戀。”While homosexuality is not illegal in China, and large cities have thriving gay scenes, there are no legal protections for same-sex couples and the country is not likely to legalize same-sex marriage soon.
儘管同性戀在中國仍被視爲非法，但是在大城市中已經有相當廣泛的同性戀圈子。在中國並沒有法律保障同性伴侶的權益，中國也不太可能很快將同性婚姻合法化。
