The law prohibits abandonment and downing of femal babies, bans discrimination against women giving birth to female babies and women who are sterile. It forbids maltreatment of aged women. It forbids abduction, sale, and purchase of women. It bans actions to organize, force, seduce, shelter or introduce women to engage in prostitution. Equal marriage and family rights, including freedom of marriage and divorce, equal relations between husband and wife.
Women can use their own surnames.
Women have special protection with regard to divorce. These groups visit criminals in prisons and write to felons, to encourage them to rehabilitate themselves. They also help released young wrong-doers to find jobs and spouses. Majority of women have a low level of education and in some rural areas, female children are not being fully guaranteed their right to education. Cases of drowning and abandonment of female infants and trafficking in women occur from time to time.