中国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.
周日，中国全国人大常委会通过了全国首部反家庭暴力法。一位高级立法者说，该法保护了未婚同居人群的权益，但同性伴侣并未被包括在内。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，中国从未有特定涉及家庭暴力的法律条例。在中国传统文化之中，人们常常忽略家庭暴力，以此来避免让家庭蒙羞。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内的任何形式的家庭暴力，并且还简化了申请禁制令的流程。
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.
根据妇联披露，约有四分之一的妇女在婚姻中受到家庭暴力的伤害。然而每年只有4万到5万人会登记相关投诉。Of the cases reported last year, almost 90 percent involved abuse by husbands of their wives.
在去年报告的案例中，约有90%是丈夫虐待妻子的情况。The new law also covers cohabitation, meaning those who are not related but live together are also included.
新法律同样也照顾到同居人群，这表明那些并未结婚但一起居住的人也同样受到法律保护。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.
当在新闻发布会上被问及新法律是否适用于同性伴侣时，人大常委会法工委社会法室负责人郭林茂称，该法律是根据现实中出现的家庭暴力的实际情况制定的。"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."
“关于同性恋，在我们国家，我们还没有发现这种暴力的形式，所以给你个确定的回答，应该说共同生活人员不包括同性恋。”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.
尽管同性恋在中国仍被视为非法，但是在大城市中已经有相当广泛的同性恋圈子。在中国并没有法律保障同性伴侣的权益，中国也不太可能很快将同性婚姻合法化。
