The Beijing Yirenping Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting social justice and public health. It was founded on December 19, 2006 with a mission to educate the public about how to prevent and treat communicable diseases, to provide outreach and assistance to patients, to eliminate discrimination, and to defend the rights of disadvantaged group s through legal means. Yirenping has project management offices based in Beijing , Zhengzhou , Shenzhen and. Nanjing .Beijing Yirenping Center has assisted plaintiffs in nearly 200 anti-discrimination lawsuits, most of which were high impact and high profile. For example, Yirenping helped file the following “first cases” in China: the first case against Hepatitis B status privacy infringement, the first case against HIV/AIDS-related discrimination in work place, the first case against Hepatitis C discrimination, the first case against tuberculosis discrimination, the first case against gene-related discrimination, the first case against mental-depression-related discrimination, the first case against color-blindness-related discrimination, the first case against discrimination related to physical appearance. Beijing Yirenping’s two main functions are to provide legal aid to individuals that have been discriminated against on the basis of a medical condition or disability and to advocate for and research policy developments.
Yirenping aided disabled persons in suing the Beijing Subway system to demand accessible facilities, in suing Beijing Subways system, Shenzhen Subway system, and Guangzhou Subway system to demand free ride. Yirenping has held Hepatitis B group therapy sessions and workshops on mental health talks in ten cities as Beijing , Shanghai , Tianjin , etc .
Yirenping has also held trainings for Hepatitis B and HIV carriers, persons with disabilities as well as carriers of other diseases on their legal rights and how to combat discrimination. These training have been held in over ten of cities, including Wuhan , Nanjing , Shenzhen, etc .
Yirenping performed outreach activities in more than 20 universities across the country. The activities were aimed at increasing public awareness of anti-discrimination laws and disseminating knowledge about public health.
Yirenping held training sessions and legal seminars for lawyers on the rights and anti-discrimination issues concerning people with mentally illness.
Since September 2008, Yirenping has provided legal counsel and aid to victims of the Sanlu poison milk powder scandal.
Policy Advocacy
Yirenping has strongly contributed to the improved rights protection for China ‘s 93 million Hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriers by advocating anti-discrimination legislation..
2007-2011: Yirenping wrote over twenty motions and recommendations for National People’s Congress (NPC) deputies and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) members, who then submitted them to the annual NPC & CPPCC sessions . .
March 2007: Yirenping called on NGOs to focus on the non-discrimination articles of the draft of the Employment Promotion Law, which left out Hepatitis B and AIDS discrimination. Yirenping later successfully lobbied the deputies of the NPC to submit proposals to amend the draft and finally got the draft amended .
October 2010: Yirenping sent a letter to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and The Ministry of Health, advocating for a review and subsequent elimination of current discrimination against HIV carriers in China ‘s civil servant recruitment system.
Bejing Yirenping Center Website: http://Website: http://www.yirenping.org/english/index.htm yi.ren.ping@hotmail.com 086-10-51917982 Beijing and Zhengzhou 1. Online Donations for The China Project
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