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Law School found similar results in surveying job seekers.Their results show that 56%of hepatitis B carriers have not been employed,mostly because they were classified as "substandard'on their physical exam35.Perhaps more disturbing is the fact that 36.%of the general public interviewed found that not hiring someone because she is infected by hepatitis B is not a form of discrimination3 Hepatitis B discrimination has been at the center of the quest for equality and non- discrimination37.Many important cases involving hepatitis B carriers have paved the way to discrimination litigation in China3.Thomas E.Kellogg,Senior Fellow at Yale Law School, notes thata key factor in the rise of hepatitis B discrimination litigation in China has been the active engagement of civil society groups'.One of the most mediatized and tragic story of hepatitis discrimination is the case of Zhou Yichao which caught the attention of NGOs and the general public3.Zhou Yichao was a graduating student of Zhejiang University,in the Zhejiang province,who applied for a position with the local government He passed the city's civil servant qualification test with success but his application was eventually turned down because of his health condition,being a hepatitis B carrier4.Desperate and angry,he killed a government representative responsible for recruitment and seriously injured another one.Mr.Zhou was arrested and sentenced to death.He was executed in March 200442 Following the Zhou incident,in November 2003,the first hepatitis B discrimination lawsuit was brought before the People's Court in the Xinwu District,in Anhui Province. Zhang Xianzhu was a young university graduate who received the highest score in the Wuhu 35 Thomas E.Kellogg,supra note 32,at 25-26. 36Id. 37See e.g.Thomas E.Kellogg,supra note 32. 38 See infra Section 5 on enforcement of non-discrimination provisions in Chinese courts. XunZeng,supra note 10,at 1003.See also Ronald Brown,supra note 11,at 382. 4o1d. 4 Id. 21d. 88 Law School found similar results in surveying job seekers. Their results show that 56% of hepatitis B carriers have not been employed, mostly because they were classified as ‘‘substandard’’ on their physical exam35. Perhaps more disturbing is the fact that 36.6% of the general public interviewed found that not hiring someone because she is infected by hepatitis B is not a form of discrimination36 . Hepatitis B discrimination has been at the center of the quest for equality and non￾discrimination37. Many important cases involving hepatitis B carriers have paved the way to discrimination litigation in China38 . Thomas E. Kellogg, Senior Fellow at Yale Law School, notes that ‘‘a key factor in the rise of hepatitis B discrimination litigation in China has been the active engagement of civil society groups’’. One of the most mediatized and tragic story of hepatitis discrimination is the case of Zhou Yichao which caught the attention of NGOs and the general public39. Zhou Yichao was a graduating student of Zhejiang University, in the Zhejiang province, who applied for a position with the local government40. He passed the city’s civil servant qualification test with success but his application was eventually turned down because of his health condition, being a hepatitis B carrier41. Desperate and angry, he killed a government representative responsible for recruitment and seriously injured another one. Mr. Zhou was arrested and sentenced to death. He was executed in March 200442 . Following the Zhou incident, in November 2003, the first hepatitis B discrimination lawsuit was brought before the People’s Court in the Xinwu District, in Anhui Province. Zhang Xianzhu was a young university graduate who received the highest score in the Wuhu 35 Thomas E. Kellogg, supra note 32, at 25-26. 36 Id. 37 See e.g. Thomas E. Kellogg, supra note 32. 38 See infra Section 5 on enforcement of non-discrimination provisions in Chinese courts. 39 Xun Zeng, supra note 10, at 1003. See also Ronald Brown, supra note 11, at 382. 40 Id. 41 Id. 42 Id
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