Thirty years on: A conversation with Xingjuan Wang,a pioneer of the Beijing declaration and platform for action

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This article is an interview between the guest editors of this monograph issue and Xingjuan Wang, a Chinese feminist activist and a co-founder of the Maple Women’s Psychological Counseling Hotline, one of the earliest grassroots initiatives supporting women facing domestic violence in China. Xingjuan Wang was present at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. In this exchange, she reflects on her work as well as the impact of the conference and its outcome documents, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

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domestic violence China fourth world conference on women Beijing declaration Beijing platform for action gender equality

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