"Beijing Times" news December 1st is the 23rd World AIDS Day. This year's AIDS prevention theme is "Facing AIDS, Paying Attention to Rights and Lighting the Light of Anti-Discrimination". On November 28, reporters learned from the International Labor Organization that Guo Jianmei, the first full-time public interest lawyer in China, will become my country’s first AIDS anti-discrimination ambassador. Today, Guo Jianmei will be officially awarded the title of Ambassador at the "Focus on Employment Protection of People Living with HIV" event organized by the International Labor Organization, the United Nations Program on AIDS and others.

The International Labor Organization awarded Guo Jianmei the title of Publicity Ambassador to promote the improvement of discrimination against people living with HIV in medical treatment and employment in my country. Guo Jianmei is the leader of Beijing Zhongze Women’s Legal Consulting Service Center and has been a public interest lawyer for 15 years. While she will be a good public welfare lawyer, she will lead more lawyers to join the team of helping people living with HIV to defend their rights, and use legal weapons to safeguard the rights to employment, medical treatment, privacy, etc. that HIV-infected people should enjoy. (Li Qiumeng)

AIDS Employment Discrimination

The Plaintiff’s Appeal in the First Case

The First Instance of the First Instance of the High-profile AIDS Employment Discrimination Case, reported by Beijing Youth Daily After the plaintiff lost the case, on November 29, the last day of the appeal period, the plaintiff Xiao Wu from Anqing, Anhui Province submitted an appeal to the Anqing Intermediate People's Court through his attorney.

On November 12, the People's Court of Yingjiang District, Anqing City, Anhui Province made a first-instance judgment on the case, rejecting all claims of the plaintiff Xiao Wu, who was refused employment as a teacher because of AIDS. The plaintiff Xiao Wu and his attorney argued in the "Administrative Appeal" submitted that the first-instance judgment avoided the core of the dispute, applied legal errors, and misunderstood laws and regulations. They hoped that the second-instance court would revoke the original judgment in accordance with the law and change the judgment to Anqing Municipal Education Bureau and The Anqing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau's administrative action of refusing to hire Xiao Wu was illegal and the administrative action of re-employment was made.

Xiao Wu’s attorney believes that the first-instance court’s judgment avoided the core of the dispute in this case. Whether the general medical examination standards for civil servant recruitment violated the superior law, the court did not answer. As long as it makes a clear response to this issue, this The outcome of the case will also be clear.