Wanhong Zhang

A blue gradient background with white text has “The D-30 Disability Impact List” at the top centered above “2024 Honoree” which is in between two laurels. Below, text “Wanhong Zhang (he/him), China” is to the left of a picture of Wanhong, which fills the right. He is a medium-skinned man with short dark hair wearing a dark suit with a name badge clipped to it. He has glasses and is sitting in an office chair grinning. At the bottom left corner is text “Diversability, #D30DisList”.

Wanhong Zhang

He/him/his

Disability advocate

China

Wanhong Zhang is Professor of Jurisprudence at Wuhan University School of Law, Wuhan, China, where he studies and teaches human rights and disability law. He is the Director of Wuhan University Institute for Human Rights Studies. As a person with physical disability, he is a pioneer of rights-based disability studies in China and the founding editor-in-chief of Disability Rights Studies in China. He also is involved in a wide range of education and advocacy efforts addressing human rights and disability justice reform in China and beyond. He played an important role in the disability paradigm shift from individual/medical model to the rights/social model in China. He set up the first “rights protection” committee under China Disability Research Society. He did numerous trainings to promote the CRPD. He is the drafter of Disability Section of China’s first National Human Rights Action Plan (NAP) and the evaluator of following NAPs.