Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Monday, February 03, 2003
New Website on Western China's Women
A website displaying the outcome of theoretical researches concerning issue relating to women in western China will be launched during the traditional Chinese New Year, the Spring Festival, which falls Saturday.
A website displaying the outcome of theoretical researches concerning issue relating to women in western China will be launched during the traditional Chinese New Year, the Spring Festival, which falls Saturday.
The website is sponsored by the Seminar on Women's Marriage andthe Family, located in northwestern Shaanxi province.
The website, www.westwomen.org, will cover topics including "rural community development", "legal assistance", and "domestic violence" and "women's hotline".
The seminar, founded in the 1980s, is one of the country's mostactive non-governmental women's organizations.
The organization has set up China's first provincial-level hotline for research on the equality between the men and women andwell-being for women as well as a special domestic violence hotline.