Yizhi Huang is a Chinese public interest lawyer who focuses on anti-discrimination issues. She graduated from the Tsinghua University School of Law in 2007 and obtained her Master’s degree in international human rights law from the University of Hong Kong in 2015. She has worked at a rights advocacy NGO and litigated many public interest cases, including impact cases on hepatitis B discrimination, the first case on genetic discrimination in China, and China’s first case on gender-based employment discrimination.
Last Updated: April 19, 2018
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