The Beijing Yirenping Center, one of China’s leading nonprofits focusing on public health and social justice issues, was recently recognized for the role it played in some of the most important public interest legal cases last year.
Beijing Yirenping Center
(Beijing-Feb. 5th, 2013) In 2012, public interest cases supported and assisted by the Beijing Yirenping Center achieved unprecedented success. During the “China’s Top Ten Public Interest Cases Selection,” jointly hosted by the Beijing Institute of Technology Institute of Justice, China’s Public Interest Litigation Network, and “Legal Weekly” magazine, six cases supported by Yirenping were chosen as part of the “Top Ten Public Interest Cases of 2012.” These cases provided important precedents for the future, and promoted the progress of rule of law in China in 2012.
In addition, the “Smiling Official” case, in which Yirenping supported college students to apply for the public release of relevant wage information, was regarded as one of the online anti-corruption network’s major successes of 2012. It was also selected for inclusion in the “Procuratorate Daily – Rule of Law Blue Book.” The Yirenping-supported female university graduates suing the Giant Education Group for sex discrimination in employment lawsuit is China’s first sex discrimination in employment lawsuit, and has also been selected for the “Rule of Law Blue Book.” At the same time, the “College Entrance Exam Sex Discrimination Collective Rights Movement” and the “Occupy Male Toilets Movement” were chosen for the “Top Ten Gender Equality News Reports of 2012” by the “China Women’s News Daily.”
Following are summaries of the six cases supported by Beijing Yirenping that made the “Top Ten Public Interest Cases of 2012.”
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