As part of her series on NGOs in Anhui, Guo Ting tells the bittersweet story of an AIDS relief practitioner’s ultimately successful efforts to set up a Chi Heng Foundation office in Anhui province, register it as a NGO and deliver financial assistance to HIV-infected families in the area.
The Shenzhen Shihui Lingqian Gongcheng Charity Foundation (深圳市施惠零铅工程慈善基金会) had its registration repealed due to an apparently illegal misappropriation of 3.03 million Yuan.
On the 15th edition of the international day for the elimination of violence against women, the State Council issued the "People's Republic of China anti-domestic violence Law (draft)".
This article analyzes the controversy on "information disclosure regulations" that has arised between an environmental activist and the Guangdong environmental protection bureau.
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.
The legal working group of the Guangdong's People Congress Standing Committee asked the National People's Congress if the"Guangdong Province Firm Collective Contract Regulations"could include workers' "right to stop work" and received a negative answer.
8,000 teachers in Zhaodong city, Heilongjiang province have been striking since November 17th after two rounds of negotiations with the authorities failed.
This short article first introduces "World Toilet Day" explaining that there are currently 2,5 billion people without access to proper toilets in the world then focuses on the situation in China.
On the 18th of November 2014, the State Council issued the “Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Commercial Health Insurance” calling on more Chinese to purchase health insurance.
240 million Yuan of government money and 2 billion of social capital will be invested in this project. But Prof. Lu Jiehua of Peking University says that long-term nursing insurance needs to enter the social insurance system to be effective.
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.
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.
The authors analyze the controversy created by Guangzhou's new regulations on the management of social organizations and their impact on unregistered NGOs.