Handover and General Issues

• Submission to the Bills Committee on Evidence (Amendment) Bill 1999 on the abolition of the requirement of corroboration in evidence in sexual offence (20 April 2000)  
• Housing Right Too Far Away from Cage Housing Residents (Traditional Chinese Version) (15 March 2000)  
• Submissions to the Legislative Council Panel on Home Affairs On the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) (13 March 2000)  
• Submissions to the Legislative Council Bills Committee on Taking DNA Samples (28 February 2000)
• Hong Kong Should Protect Rule of Law and Human Rights Unequivocally (Nov 1999)
• Top Ten Human Rights Issues in 1998 (Dec 1998)
• Hong Kong -- Nine Months after the Hand-over
  Submission to the Foreign Affairs Committee, British Parliament (Apr 1998)
• Promoting Three Basic Freedoms:Hong Kong NGOs step into the unknown facing repressive laws (Sep 1997)
• Response to Civil Liberties and Social Order - Chief Executive's Office Consultation Document (Apr 1997)
• Threats to Hong Kong's Rule of Law at the Transfer of Sovereignty (Jun 1997)

• Submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Regarding the Report of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (RTF format, 392kb) (April 2001)
  
• Shadow Report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Regarding the Report of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (RTF format, 316kb) (2 July 2001)  
• Submissions to the United Nations Economic Social Cultural Rights Committee Pre-sessional Working Group regarding the SAR Government's ICESCR Report (English Version in RTF format) (16 May 2000)  
• Submissions to the United Nations Committee Against Torture in relation to the Report of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region under the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (English Version in RTF format) (4 May 2000)
• Letter to Mrs. Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (25 February 2000)
• Submissions to the United Nations Human Rights Committee regarding the SAR Government's ICCPR Report 1999
• Pre-sessional Working Group of the United Nations Human Rights Committee Briefed
• Joint Submissions of NGOs to the Human Rights Committee on the Report of the HKSAR in the light of the ICCPR (CCPR/C/HK/99/1) Before the 67th Session of the Human Rights Committee (Geneva, 18 Oct - 5 Nov 1999)
• Submission to the UN on the HKSAR under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Jan 1999)
• Briefing Paper for the United Nations Human Rights Committee 1996 (Oct 1996)

Executive Summary of the above
• Briefing for the Committee on the Rights of the Child (Sept 1996)
• Briefing Paper for the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Mar 1996)

Executive Summary of the above
• Briefing Paper for the United Nations Committee Against Torture (Nov 1995)
• Briefing Paper for the United Nations Human Rights Committee 1995 (Oct 1995)

• Submissions to the Legislative Council Panel on Constitutional Affairs On the Development of the Political System (20 March 2000)  
• Submission on the Proposed Electoral Guidelines for 1999 District Councils Election (May 1999)
• Submission to the Legislative Council Bills Committee on District Boards Bill (Jan 1999)
• Report on 1998 Legislative Council Elections (Dec 1998)
• Unfair Election in Hong Kong (Dec 1998)
• Corporate Voting is Highly Corrupt (Dec 1998)
• Democracy is the Number One Human Rights Issue (Dec 1998)
• Response to the Consultative Document on the Delineation of the Electorate for the New Functional Constituencies and the Election Committee for the 1st Legislative Council Election of the HKSAR (Jul 1997)

• No Confidence in Elsie Leung (16 May 2000)  
• Confirmation that Courts Will No Longer Defend Hong Kong's Freedoms (15 December 99)
• Human Rights Monitor's response to a bland and feeble statement by the British Consulate-General (26 June 99)
• Press Release: Rule of Law Betrayed by Chief Executive who Claims to Defend (26 June 99)
• Press Release: XinHua Mocks the Law (22 June 99)
• No need for a formal mechanism for illegal efforts (June 99)
• Submission on the Procedure for the Amendment of the Basic Law (Mar 99)
• Press Release: No Confidence in Mrs. Elsie Leung (7 Mar 99)
• Adaptation of Law (May 1998)
• NCNA above the law of Hong Kong (May 1998)
• Privacy Ordinance does not Safeguard Privacy (May 1998)
• Privacy Ordinance at Stake (May 1998)
• Threats to Hong Kong's Rule of Law at the Transfer of Sovereignty (Jun 1997)
• Legality of Provisional LegCo (Aug 1997)
• Immigration Policy Threatens Constitutional Rights & Rule of Law (Jul 1997)
• Provisional Legislature - Legal and Constitutional Difficulties (Sep 1996)
• Key Facts -- Hong Kong's Bill of Rights (Jul 1997)
• Judicial Interpretation of the Bill of Rights (Dec 1996)
• The Court of Appeal as a Bulwark of Human Rights: Our Worries (Dec 1996)

• Press Release on the Death of a Senior Immigration Officer (11 August 2000)  
• Violence hurts ones own cause (4 August 2000)  
• Statement on the decision of the Court of First Instance in the case of Ng Siu Tung (30 June 2000)
• Dramatic reduction in the degree of Hong Kong's autonomy confirmed (3 Dec 99)
• New Survey on Right of Abode Casts Doubt on Government's "Taxi Method" Survey (18 Oct 99)
• Press Release: Paving a Major Set Back in the Rule of Law of HK (10 June 99)
• Press Release: No due process in "supreme re-interpretation" (10 June 99)
• Press Release: Deliberate Wreckers (18 May 99)
• Presentation to Legislative Council on Right of Abode Issue (10 May 99)
• Joint Statement on the Right of Abode of HKSAR Permanent Residents Currently Living in the Mainland (3 May 99)
• Letter to the Chief Executive (3 May 99)
• Mainland Right of Abode Claimants Systematically Abused Summary of the Survey (Mar 99)
• Press Release: Constitutional Jurisdiction of the Court of Final Appeal (26 Feb 99)
• Statement on the Court of Final Appeal Right of Abode Cases (29 Jan 1999)

• A Ticking Time Bomb?: Article 23, Security Law, and Human Rights in Hong Kong (17 August 2001)
  (RTF format, 282kb)  
• Statement: Distress Over Police's Selective Oppression of Student Organisations (16 August 2000)
  (Traditional Chinese Version), (Simplified Chinese Version)  
• Statement: Academic freedom at stake (14 July 2000)
• Press Release: Protestors Pepper-sprayed Contrary to a Deal with Police ? (26 June 2000)
• Strict Law, Harsh Judgment, Reasonable Contempt (26 May 2000)
  (Traditional Chinese Version) (Simplified Chinese Version)
• Press Release: Minimum Restriction the Key to Exercise of Rights (Oct 99)
• Press Release: Stop Interfering with Freedom of Expression (Aug 99)
• Press Release: Constitutional Victory for Flag-Burning Case (Mar 99)
• Promoting Three Basic Freedoms:Hong Kong NGOs step into the unknown facing repressive laws (Sep 1997)
• Response to Civil Liberties and Social Order - Chief Executive's Office Consultation Document (Apr 1997)
• Position Paper on the Official Secrets Bill 1997 (May 1997)
• The first casualties of the handover - deteriorating legal and institutional safeguards of human rights (Oct 1997)

• Suffering from an Irresponsible Immigration Department (1 February 2000)
 
• Rule of Law Protector Should Not Be Left Unprotected (20 September 1999)
• A Profound Symbolic Loss of Freedom (9 August 1999)
• An Open Letter to the Secretary for Security (23 April 1999)
• Review of Immigration Law and practice regarding persons without the right of abode in Hong Kong (Sep 1996)
• Discussion Paper: A Solution to the Vietnamese Migrant Issue (Jan 1996)
• The ICCPR and Vietnamese Migrants in Hong Kong

• Open court closed by the police (26 July 2000)  
• Light Punishment to Harbour Violent Police Officers? (August 1999)
• Statement on yet another death in police custody (August 1999)  
• Response to the HKSAR's Report on Convention Against Torture (May 1999)(Chinese Version)
• Press Release: Letter to the Secretary for Justice --- Re: Decision not to Prosecute Police Officers for Torture (Feb 1999)
• HK People Paying the Price for Government Obstruction of Legal Reforms of Police Powers (Dec 1998)
• Position Paper on Police Interrogration Practices and Complaints Procedure (Jan 1996)
• Submission on the Independent Police Complaints Council Bill (Feb 1997)

• Recommendations: Reforming the Justice of the Peace System (16 April 2000)
• Statement about the Press Conference of the Correctional Services Offices' Association on Emily Lau's Surprise Visit to Tung Tau Prison
  (Traditional Chinese Version) (Simplified Chinese Version)
  (13 April 2000)  
• Report on the Reform of the Justice of the Peace System (Jul 1999)
• Hong Kong - Prison Conditions in 1997 (Jun 1997)

• Report on proposal to Establish an Independent Legal Aid Authority (JUL 1998)
  Executive Summary of the above
• Response to Legal Aid Policy Review 1997 (Mar 1998)

• Response to the Education Commission Consultation Document:The Aim of Educaiton (5 Mar 99)

• Response to the Government's Consultation Document on Race Discrimination Legislation (11 Dec 2004)
  
• Muhammad has the wrong blood for permanent residence in Hong Kong (21 April 2000)  
• Press Release on Racial Discrimination in Hong Kong (Oct 1998)
• Survey results on Racial Discrimination in Hong Kong (Oct 1998)
• Race Discrimination in Hong Kong (Feb 1998)
• Submission to the Hong Kong Government in Response to its Proposed Code of Practice Against Discrimination in Employment on the Ground of Sexuality (Dec 1997)
• Submission to the Hong Kong Government in Response to its Proposed Code of Practice Against Discrimination in Employment on the Ground of Race (Nov 1997)
• Japanese Tourists Need Rights Protection (Nov 1997)
• What Color Are You (Nov 1997)