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Help needed to protect lesbians from domestic violence

By Meng Jing | China Daily | Updated: 2010-03-16 07:55

An NGO has called for more support and vigilance for lesbians after the Chinese mainland's first survey revealed that they suffer the most from domestic violence.

The three-year survey, carried out between 2007 and 2009, was conducted by Common Language, a Beijing-based support group for lesbian, bisexual women and trans-gendered people (LBT).

Xu Bin, director of Common Language, said because of their "special lifestyle", lesbians and bisexual women face potentially multiple perpetrators of domestic violence: their parents, their female partners and in some cases, their husbands or boyfriends.

Help needed to protect lesbians from domestic violence

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