The Legal Service Center for Women of Qianxi County (the Center),
established on December 22, 1995 with the approval of the judicial
administrative authority, consists of full time lawyers and legal workers
who voluntarily provide legal aid for women.
The Center aims at protecting women’s rights, safeguarding legal justice and promoting gender equality. It undertakes the mission to promote justice and serve women. Great progress has been made since its development.
● Led by the Center, a three-tier countywide network has been set up with working stations at the town level and working teams at the village level. The Center has also established good partnership with the Women’s Federation, the police and the judiciary.
● A team working specially to protect women’s rights has been developed, which includes 7 lawyers (5 female) and 60 legal workers.
● The working mode integrates counseling, case-dealing and law-publicity. The legal service and aid has been provided for women in various ways. So far, 10, 000 person/time’s counseling has been done for free, 600 times publicity of law and training and 2,800 poor women victims have received legal aid.
In the past ten years, the Center has achieved continuous progress in its organization and staff with the support of all ranks in society so that it grows to be an influential rural legal aid organization. The Center has received visitors from Beijing, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Shandong, Guizhou, Hubei, Liaoning and the Unite States, Britain, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Australia.
The Center owes its achievements to the support from relevant agencies of the government at each level and the Women’s Federation and scholars such as Professor Chen Mingxia (CASS), to the arduous efforts of all the staffs and to the constant financial support form the Ford Foundation. He Jiesen, Zhang Lelun and Titi Liu, all program officers, visited the Center many times with constructive advice.