Amendments to Provincial Regulations on Protecting the Legal Rights and Interests of Women and Children, November 1989
Annual Review of Population Law 16: 120
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417 PMID: 12344070 Document Number: 383412
In early November 1989 the government of Fujian, China made the following amendments to its Provincial Regulations on Protecting the Legal Rights and Interests of Women and Children: "a) if state policy on the recruitment of students and workers is violated, and if the law is broken through the imposition of restrictions on women seeking education and jobs, the party concerned or his guardian may file a complaint with the department in charge of recruitment of students or workers within 30 days after learning about the matter; the latter should handle the case within 30 days after receiving the complaint. b) when handling divorce cases the People's Court should follow the law and divide up the property jointly owned by the two sides when the husband- wife relationship still existed; the court is forbidden from increasing the unreasonable economic burden of the wife simply because it was the wife that asked for the divorce. c) in proceedings relating to saving women and children who have been abducted for purposes of selling later, it is necessary to respect the will of the abducted women; no one is allowed to demand compensation from the victimized women, children, or their families."