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  NEW YORK (AP) – Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says women don’t need to ask for a raise. They should just trust the system – one that at technology companies…Continue readingMicrosoft CEO: Women don’t need to ask for raise

Women’s Rights in China volunteer: Su Chang Lan                                            …Continue readingThree Legal Rights Activists Xie Wen Fei, Wang Fu Lei, and Wang Mo Arrested in Guangzhou.

H. R. 2121 To deny the entry into the United States of certain members of the senior leadership of the Government of the People’s Republic of China and individuals who…Continue readingH. R. 2121

  WRIC report: On July 31st, 2013, Youshui Wu, along with other lawyers from Zhejiang sent letters to the 2013 July the Department of Birth Control and Department of Finance…Continue reading14 female lawyer ask to publicize the “social fostering fee”

Source: LGBT ASYLUM NEWSAuthor: PAUL CANNINGPulsihed Time: January 5th, 2012 Increased awareness is changing what was stigmatized treatment of HIV/AIDS in China. This year the country will host its first…Continue readingIn China, LGBT and HIV grassroots movements are growing

Source: Women’s Rights in China  Author: YANG YU  Pulsihed Time: 2012-12-12 Sponsored by Women’s Rights in China and joined by several activism organizations, the New York Memorial for Tibetan and…Continue readingNew York Memorial for Tibetan and Han Self-immolation Protests on Human Rights Day

Source: http://pelosi.house.gov Author: http://pelosi.house.govPulsihed Time: June 5, 2012 Contact: Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616 Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today after meeting with Chinese activist Chen…Continue readingPelosi Statement on Meeting with Chinese Activist Chen Guangcheng

In the weeks since the North China Child Rescue Operations concluded on Dec. 22nd 2011, WRIC’s Huijiawang had received nearly a hundred tips. 12 cases of missing children had been…Continue readingThree Year Old Girl Missing for Half a Year Found by Huijiawang

Source: http://bikyamasr.comAuthor: Joseph MaytonPulsihed Time: 24 January 2012 CAIRO: Egypt’s political groups have professed a claim to uphold human rights in the country, but are failing on ensuring women’s rights…Continue readingEgypt political groups refuse women’s rights, end death penalty, says rights group

Source: http://www.ibiblio.orgAuthor: Pulsihed Time: 2012-1-24 A Timeline of the Women’s Rights Movement 1848 – 1998 1848 The world’s first women’s rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, NY, July 19-20.…Continue readingThe Path of the Women’s Rights Movement in U.S

Source: The Wichita Eagle Author: Beccy Tanner Pulsihed Time: Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, The sculpture of Mary Elizabeth Lease stands between Century II and the Wichita Public Library. It was…Continue readingDowntown statue honors leader of women’s rights, Populist movement

Source: http://www.capradio.orgAuthor: Pulsihed Time: 2012-1-20 Governor Brown says the California Commission on the Status of Women should be eliminated. State Senator Noreen Evans is chair of the Legislative Woman’s Caucus,…Continue readingCommission on Status of Women Still Needed

Source: China DailAuthor: Cheng GuangjinPulsihed Time: 2012-01-18  BEIJING – China objects to other countries’ interference in its internal affairs and the violation of China’s judicial sovereignty by making an issue…Continue readingMinistry defends progress on human rights

Source: New York Times Author: Michael Wines  Pulsihed Time: January 18, 2012 Beijing –The Chinese authorities have charged another veteran human rights activist with attempting to subvert the state, the…Continue readingZhu Yufu, China activist, charged with subversion

Author: Tania Branigan   Pulsihed Time: January 18, 2012 Lin Zuluan BEIJING: A protest leader in Wukan, the southern Chinese village that drove out the authorities in a row over land…Continue readingCommunist Party appoints land rights protester its village head

Source: Women’s Rights in China Pulsihed Time: 2011-12-22 Women’s Rights in China Reports Journalists working for wrchina.org reports that Local authorities in Shanwei, China has ended the blockade of Wukan, the…Continue readingWukan Protests: Two Worlds, Uneasy Co-Existence

estannard@nhregister.com / Twitter: @edstannardnhr NEW HAVEN — A rising Chinese communist star who claimed to have served as an assistant to Mayor John DeStefano Jr. in 2000 was largely responsible…Continue readingCommunist Party leader in Chinese city claims to have worked in New Haven City Hall; accused in torture of rights activist (documents)

Source: http://www.acton.org Author: Anthony B. Bradley Pulsihed Time: April 7, 2009 Heavy-handed government intervention without regard for human dignity produces long-term deleterious effects. Unintended consequences include a dehumanized social sphere…Continue readingSaving China’s Children From Their Government

Adopted at the Fourth Session of the Sixth National People’s Congress, promulgated by Order No. 37 of the President of the People’s Republic of China on April 12, 1986, and…Continue readingGeneral Principles of the Civil Law of the People’s Republic of China (Excerpts)

Adopted at the Second Session of the Fifth National People’s Congress on July 1, 1979. Revised at the Fifth Session of the Eighth National People’s Congress on March 14, 1997…Continue readingCriminal Law of the People’s Republic of China (Excerpts)

Adopted at the Fifth Session of the Fifth National People’s Congress and promulgated for impleamentation by the Announcement of the Nationa People’s Congress on December 4,1982. Revised in accordance with…Continue readingConstitution of the People’s Republic of China (Excerpts)

Adopted at the Second Session of the Fifth National People’s Congress on July 1, 1979, and revised in accordance with the Criminal Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China…Continue readingCriminal Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China (Excerpts)

Adopted at the Fourth Session of the Sixth National People’s Congress, and effective as of July 1, 1986. Article 1 This Law is formulated, in accordance with the Constitution and…Continue readingCompulsory Education Law of the People’s Republic of China

Adopted at the 25th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People’s Congress on December 29, 2001 Contents Chapter I General Provisions Chapter II Formulation and Implementation of…Continue readingPopulation and Family Planning Law of the People’s Republic of China

Adopted at the 21st Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People’s Congress on September 4, 1991, and effective as of January 1, 1992 Contents Chapter I General…Continue readingLaw of the People’s Republic of China on the Protection of Minors

Adopted at the Third Session of the Fifth National People’s Congress on September 10, 1980, and amended in accordance with Decision Regarding the Amendment (of Marriage Law of the People’s…Continue readingMarriage Law of the People’s Republic of China