近日，鮑某明性侵事件不斷髮酵。4月13日，最高人民檢察院終於發佈通知，最高人民檢察院、公安部聯合督查，對該案辦理工作進行督導。
然而，依然有很多人擔心作為專職律師的鮑某明，會利用法律的漏洞為自己脫罪。
這時，為受害者李星星（化名）辯護的律師也進入了人們的視線。受理這起案件的律師來自北京千千律師事務所，這是中國為數不多的公益律師事務所，主要服務於女性弱勢群體。
而今天我們想說的，是該律所的創始人郭建梅女士。她是《中華人民共和國婦女權益保障法》起草者之一，被稱為“中國公益律師之母”。
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北京大學法學系畢業的她，原本擁有一份穩定的工作。然而，為了心中的理想與正義，她辭去安穩的政府工作，全身心投入公益中，為弱勢婦女提供免費的法律援助。
她的手中，都接過一些什麼樣的案例呢？
被關在北京製衣廠打工的女工，被長期拖欠工資，沒有合同，生理期沒錢買衛生用品，生了病也沒人管。案子打了三年，郭建梅最後終於為25位女工爭取到了應得的工資與經濟賠償金；
妻子長期被家暴投訴無門，最後殺死丈夫被判死刑。郭建梅在網上舉辦了避免死刑的聯合署名活動，將死刑變成了死緩；
農村土地分錢，賠償金卻全都被村裡的男人領走，女人一分錢沒有。婦女們到處尋求幫助，請律師花了十萬，遇上過假記者，又被騙走幾萬。到了郭建梅這裡，案子又打了三年，最終翻案；
女員工被老闆性侵，鼓起勇氣找到她。最終在努力之下，被告被判強姦罪名成立，判有期徒刑4年……
25年的，12萬名婦女，4000多起案件。
被強暴的少女、討薪無門的女工、遭受毆打的妻子、失去孩子的母親、被性侵害、職場性別歧視的女孩們……在這些處於苦難中、無處發聲的女性眼裡，“她就像一盞燈，讓我們看到了公平與正義的光亮，讓我們在寒冷中感受到溫暖，讓前行的路不再黑暗。”
2019年，郭建梅律師獲得了瑞典生活方式楷模獎（Right Livelihood Award），這一獎項又被稱為“諾貝爾替代獎”（Alternative Nobel Prize），於1980年由瑞典和德國血統的歐洲集郵家馮·嶽克斯庫爾設立，專門獎勵在環境和生態保護及人類社會可持續發展方面作出過傑出貢獻的自然人和人文、社會科學家。
郭建梅律師因為其多年來在女性權益保護法律援助領域的傑出貢獻，成為2019年四名獲獎者之一。
Guo Jianmei is one of the most distinguished lawyers in the field of women’s rights in China. Throughout her career, she assisted thousands of disadvantaged women in getting access to justice. She consistently addresses gender bias in the justice system and helps raise gender awareness in China, a country with around 650 million women.
郭建梅是中國女性權益領域最傑出的律師之一。在職業生涯中，她幫助成千上萬的弱勢婦女獲得了司法公正。中國擁有約6.5億女性人口，她一直致力於解決國內司法系統中的性別偏見問題，並幫助提高國人的性別意識。
Guo Jianmei has founded and directed several organisations for the protection of women’s rights. As China’s first public interest lawyer working full-time in legal aid, she successfully introduced the concept of pro bono legal services for marginalised persons into the Chinese context. Since 1995, she and her teams have offered free legal counselling to more than 120,000 women all over China and have been involved in more than 4000 lawsuits to enforce women’s rights and advance gender equality.
郭建梅創辦並領導過多個保護婦女權益的組織。作為中國第一位全職從事法律援助工作的公益律師，她成功地將為邊緣人群提供無償法律服務的概念引入中國。自1995年以來，她和她的團隊已為全國超過12萬婦女提供免費法律諮詢，參與4000多起維護婦女權益、推進性別平等的訴訟案件。
Guo Jianmei’s work shines a spotlight on the state of women’s rights in China, where one in four married women has experienced some form of domestic violence at the hands of a husband, and gender discrimination at the workplace is rampant. Guo guides women through lawsuits and carries out legal advocacy at a national level on issues like unequal pay, sexual harassment, work contracts that prohibit pregnancies and forced early retirement without compensation. In rural China, where patriarchal attitudes are still deeply rooted, Guo provides legal support for women who have been denied their land rights.
郭建梅的工作反映了中國女性權益的現狀。在中國，每四名已婚婦女中就有一名遭受過丈夫某種形式的家庭暴力，工作場所的性別歧視十分嚴重。
郭建梅律師指導婦女打官司，並在全國範圍內就不平等薪酬、性騷擾、禁止懷孕的工作合同和被迫提前退休且無補償等問題進行法律宣傳。在男權觀念仍然根深蒂固的中國農村，郭建梅為那些被剝奪了土地權益的婦女提供法律支持。In 2005, she created the China Public Interest Lawyers Network that gathers more than 600 not-for-profit lawyers who can take up cases even in remote regions of China. Together with colleagues, she also provided a vast number of legal comments and research that led to the refinement and improvement of relevant laws and regulations.
2005年，她創建了中國公益律師網，聚集了600多名公益律師，即使中國偏遠地區的案件也能受理。她還和同事一起提供了大量法律意見並作了大量研究，推動了相關法律法規的細化和完善。
Guo Jianmei has shown courage and extraordinary resilience. Her work continues to impact the lives of millions of Chinese women.
郭建梅表現出了勇氣和非凡的韌性。她的工作會持續影響千千萬萬中國婦女的生活。
出生
Guo Jianmei was born in Henan Province in Central China on 13 October 1961.
郭建梅於1961年10月13日出生在華中的河南省。
北京大學
After graduating from the prestigious Peking University School of Law in 1983, she held positions at the Chinese Ministry of Justice, the All-China Women’s Federation and the All-China Lawyers Association.
1983年從享有盛譽的北京大學法學院畢業後，郭建梅先後供職於中國司法部、中華全國婦聯和中華全國律師協會。
郭建梅在北大
婦女權益保護法
She participated in the drafting of China’s first comprehensive law devoted to the protection of women, the 1992 “Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women of the People’s Republic of China”.
她參與了《中華人民共和國婦女權益保障法》的起草工作。該法是中國第一部全面保障婦女權益的專門法律，於1992年頒行。
公益律師
A turning point in her career came in 1995 when the United Nations convened the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. This meeting exposed Guo Jianmei to ideas of how to advance women’s rights such as the involvement of non-governmental organisations and the concept of public interest law that was previously unknown in China.
1995年，郭建梅迎來了事業的轉折點。那一年，聯合國在北京召開了第四次世界婦女大會。這次大會讓郭建梅瞭解到與推進女性權益相關的一些觀念，比如非政府組織的參與和此前在中國不為人知的公益法概念。
Guo Jianmei quit her secure government job to become China’s first public interest lawyer dedicated to providing legal aid on a full-time basis. She successfully introduced the concept of free legal services for vulnerable women into the Chinese legal and cultural context.
郭建梅辭去安穩的公職，成為
中國第一位全職提供法律援助的公益律師。她為弱勢婦女提供免費法律服務，成功將這一概念帶進中國的法律和文化。創辦組織
In late 1995, she and several teachers from Peking University, co-founded the first public interest NGO specifically aimed at offering free legal aid to women, the Center for Women’s Law Studies and Legal Services of Peking University.
1995年末，郭建梅與北京大學的幾位老師共同創立了中國第一家公益性民間組織——北京大學法學院婦女法律研究與服務中心，專為婦女提供免費的法律援助。
經典案例
In 2007, Guo was able to recover land compensation money totaling more than 9 million Chinese Yuan (about 1,2 Million US Dollar) for 28 women from the city of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia. This successfully concluded case became a classic law case in China.
2007年，郭建梅為內蒙古呼和浩特市的28名婦女討回總計900多萬元人民幣（約120萬美元）的土地補償金。此案成功結案，成為中國的一個經典案例。
《反家庭暴力法》
Since 1995, Guo Jianmei and her team of lawyers have submitted over 110 legal opinions, research reports, and legislative proposals, some of which suggested improving the relevant laws and regulations. Their persistent advocacy for the victims of domestic abuse helped pave the way for the enactment of China’s first Domestic Violence Law in 2016.
自1995年起，郭建梅及其律師團隊已經提出了110多份法律意見、研究報告和立法建議，其中有些已被採納，完善了相關的法律和規則。他們鍥而不捨地扶助家庭暴力的受害者，為中國首部《反家庭暴力法》在2016年的頒行鋪平了道路。
Without her pioneering work, subsequent generations of lawyers would have a more limited concept of a lawyer’s role in society. In spite of increasing restrictions and decreasing funds, she continues to advocate for the rights of women and disadvantaged groups in every possible way.
如果沒有郭建梅敢為人先，後代律師對律師社會職責的認知會更為狹隘。縱然限制增多，資金減少，她仍竭盡全力為婦女和弱勢群體爭取權益。
“The way ahead is long; I see no ending, yet high and low I will search with my will unbending,” she says quoting ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan (340-278 BC).
郭建梅經常引用中國古代詩人屈原（公元前340年—前278年）的名句：“路漫漫其修遠兮，吾將上下而求索。”
在接受採訪時，郭建梅律師這樣總結作為公益律師的狀態：“激情燃燒，擔當責任，不被理解，步履艱難，透支生命。”而這樣艱辛的道路，她一走就是幾十年。
她做的，是比太陽還要光輝的事業。
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