Union formed to protect students

The first campus union against domestic violence was set up by eight universities in Beijing on Sunday to deal with violent relationship breakups.

Nine student societies from eight universities formed the union with help from the Anti-Domestic Violence Network of the China Law Society (ADVN), an NGO founded in 2000 to protect women's rights.

Liu Xiaojuan, an official from ADVN, told METRO it is now necessary to raise public attention levels about the number of violence cases against female students during and after a relationship.