A Day on the Women’s Rights March
CDB's Guo Ting spends 24 hours walking alongside activist Xiao Meili on her Women's Rights March from Beijing to Guangzhou.
2015-01-16
Lawyers and judges should avoid creating situations where both sides lose
During a case involving multiple offences in Huizhou, Guangdong, the defendants' lawyers left the room without giving any explanation. This action comes at a moment when the Supreme People's Procuratorate has published "Provisions on protecting lawyers' professional rights according to the law".
2015-01-14
Rural woman files first lawsuit on forced sterilization in China
Two years ago Xia Runying, a female farmer in Jiangxi province, was forcibly sterilized by the local family planning committee. She filed a lawsuit against the committee, asserting that the surgery was illegal and seeking compensation; the first such case in China.
2015-01-12
Two NGOs initiate first environment public interest lawsuit
On January 1st 2015, two NGOs received a notice from the Nanping city intermediate people's court stating it had accepted to file their lawsuit. This is the first occurence of a public interest lawsuit being filed since the new "Environment Protection Law" has been enforced.
2015-01-07
An Oral History of Wang Xingjuan
In this article, CDB's Guo Ting interviews Wang Xingjuan, one of the pioneering figures of the Chinese feminist movement. Through Wang's story, we get a glimpse at the development of the Chinese women's rights movement from the end of the eighties on.
2015-01-05
ConocoPhillips damage claim case: first court hearing concluded
Zhang Fuqiu, lawyer of the 21 plaintiffs in the ConocoPhillips case, released an interview to Caixin, explaining the circumstances of the Bohai Bay incident, and its consequences for the local environment and communities.
2014-12-12
Inspiration from Expertise-based Grassroots Advocacy
CDB's Chief Researcher Liu Haiying gives some examples of successful advocacy campaigns pushed forward by groups of experts.
2014-12-09
Tsinghua report: migrant worker collective action pushes for trade union reform
A new joint report from Tsinghua University and the China Youth Development Foundation suggests that without supporting the demands of migrant workers, the current situation of frequent strikes will become more serious.
2014-12-08
The Rise and Fall of the Anti-Domestic Violence Network
Ex-ADVN program officer Dong Yige analyzes the history of the influential Anti-Domestic Violence Network and the reason for its closing down in May 2014.
2014-11-24
Zhaodong strike ends, pension reform still controversial
After the government has accepted to increase the teachers' wages by 772 RMB/month on average, the strike ended on November 20th.
2014-11-21
Demanding higher wages, teachers in Zhaodong do not return to class
8,000 teachers in Zhaodong city, Heilongjiang province have been striking since November 17th after two rounds of negotiations with the authorities failed.
2014-11-20
Landmark gender employement discrimination case
On November 12th, the Hangzhou municipality Xicheng district People's court decided that the Oriental Cooking School was guilty of gender-based discrimination because it had a "hiring men only" policy.
2014-11-14
Domestic Violence: The Mainstream Topic after the 1995 Conference
The article describes how the concept of "anti-domestic violence" was introduced to China and how the fight against domestic violence has been mainstreamed by the Chinese feminist movement since 1995.
2014-11-12
Domestic Workers Set Out Rules For Their Employers
In this article, Han Hongmei uses the "I give the employers my set of rules" case study to analyze the emergence and multiplication of advocacy activities carried out by marginalized groups.
2014-11-06
Guizhou refuses again to register an AIDS employment discrimination case
An HIV positive teacher's anti-discrimination case is refused by a Guizhou court.
2014-11-06
The 2013 Chinese Sexual Abuse Cases
CDB Deputy Editor Guo Ting discusses the sexual abuse cases that were uncovered in China in 2013 and the campaigning efforts of activists.
2014-11-04
Editorial: When public interest organizations run into “hidden rules”
In this Editorial, CDB's Fu Tao discusses the unwritten rules Chinese public interest organizations have to deal with when operating and discusses the cases of the Shanghai United Foundation (Lianqian) and of the Nanjing NGO Justice For All.
2014-10-19
First AIDS employment discrimination case in Jiangsu: defendent receives 40,000 yuan compensation
On October 9th, the author has learned through public interest NGO Justice for all (Tianxiagong) that the case involving an HIV carrier, Chen Xin (pseudonym), being denied employment by a government body had come to a result.
2014-10-09
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