Top women related events of 2014. China.

• Enhanced 'Ruling by the Law' Sparks Women's Enthusiasm
  The new State strategy on "comprehensively advancing the rule of law" in China has sparked heated discussion throughout the country. Women from various circles in China have actively responded to this far-reaching State approach.

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• China Issues Anti–domestic Violence Law Draft
  The Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council on November 25 publicized the Law of People's Republic of China against Domestic Violence (draft) to solicit advice from the public, marking the first time that China has developed a law specific to anti–domestic violence.

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• China Reports to UN CEDAW on Its Elimination of Discrimination against Women
  This past October, China sent a delegation to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) to present a report on the Chinese government's implementation of the UN CEDAW Convention and on the progress China has made in safeguarding women's rights and interests since 1996, marking yet another noteworthy event on women's issues in China for the year 2014.

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• Selective Second-Child Policy Carried Out across China
  More than 800,000 Chinese couples nationwide had filed applications to have a second child by the end of September 2014, announced China's top family planning authority on November 18.

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• NGO, Academics and Students Make Joint Efforts to Curb Campus Sexual Assaults
  Only a small percentage of sexual assault cases that occurred on Chinese campuses from January 2013 to May 2014 were reported by public security or education authorities, according to an NGO survey released in August 2014. The NGO, A Group on Women's Rights, is an online public-interest group comprising more than a dozen women, including mothers, lawyers, NGO workers and college students.

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• Who Should Be Accountable for 'Black August'? Safety Tips for Women Spawn Controversy
  Many are calling August 2014 "Black August" after a couple of young Chinese women in different cities were tortured or killed after getting into the car of a stranger offering them a lift home.

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• Campaign Seeking 'Most Beautiful Families' Nationwide
  The All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) held a video and telephone conference in Beijing on February 24, 2014 to launch and coordinate the campaign to find the "most beautiful families" nationwide from February to May 2014.

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• List of China's Richest Women of 2014 Released
  The Hurun Research Institute released on October 21 its "China's Richest Women of 2014" list, which shows that there are 50 Chinese women who each have assets worth over 5 billion yuan (U.S. $810 million), 30% of whom inherited their wealth and 70% of whom are self-made.

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• McDonald's Murder in China: Brutal Attack on an Innocent Woman
  Attackers were sentenced to life in prison or to death on November 28, 2014, for ganging up on and killing an innocent woman in Zhaoyuan, a county-level city in east China's Shandong Province. The case aroused outrage against the cult members who committed the crime as well as against the scene’s bystanders, who did not stand up to come to the woman’s aid. More significant measures must be taken in both public and private sectors in order to curb public violence and assault against womenhttp://www.womenofchina.cn/womenofchina/html1/1412/720-1.htm

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