Submissions to the United Nations

Urgent Appeals to UN Committees
United Nations Human Rights Committee
United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child
United Nations Committee Against Torture

United Nations Committee of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

United Nations Committee of the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

Urgent Appeals to different UN Committees (Back To Top)

Urgent appeal to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights regarding the lack of Comprehensive Governmental Policies to handle the problem of poverty in Hong Kong (November 2007)

Urgent Appeal regarding the Hong Kong government's racial discrimination bill - Submission to Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination -- Hong Kong Human Rights Commission, Society for Community Organization, New Immigrants Mutual Aid Association, Asylum Seekers' and Refugees' Voice (September 2007)

Urgent Appeal to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees concerning UNHCR-HK and Hong Kong Government violate asylum seekers' rights -- Asylum seekers send letters to UNHCR Headquarters to complain about lack of identity documents (September 2007)
Letters from asylum seekers in Hong Kong (September 2007)

Urgent Appeal regarding the second periodic report of China: The Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong concerning the rights covered by the article 1 - 28 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) (March 2006)

Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Human Rights Committee Concerning to the serious human rights infringement by the newly introduced Executive Order issued by the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (August 2005)

Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination On HONG KONG SAR -- Delay of race discrimination bill and exclusion of new immigrants from Mainland China (September 2004)

Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Human Rights Committee -- Hong Kong Family Members are being detained in China by arbitrary arrest and without fair trial (April 2000)

Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- Newly Inaugurated Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Deports Children to China whose Families are in Hong Kong (November 1997)

Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child -- Newly Inaugurated Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Deports Children to China whose Families are in Hong Kong & Denies Children's Right to Education (September 1997)

Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on Hong Kong -- Newly Inaugurated Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Deports Children having Right of Abode (July 1997)

Submission to United Nations Human Rights Committee (Back To Topic)

Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the Second Periodic Report of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China in light of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) (March 2006)

Voices of the Rights of Asylum Seekers and Refugees - 10 Letters from asylum seekers in Hong Kong to the United Nations Human Rights Committee Regarding the second periodic report of China: The Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong concerning the rights covered by the article 1 - 28 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)(March 2006)

List of issues for the Pre-sessional Working Group to be taken up in connection with the consideration of the second periodic report of China: The Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong concerning the rights covered by the article 1 - 28 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) (September 2005)

Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the report of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China in the light of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) (October 1999)

Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on Hong Kong Human Rights Situations after the Change of Sovereignty (March 1998)

Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the Supplementary Report by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in respect of Hong Kong under International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) (September 1996)

Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the Fourth Periodic Report by Hong Kong under Article 40 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)(October 1995) and the Executive Summary

Submission to United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Back To Top)

Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the Second Report of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China in the light of the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) (November 2004)

Supplementary report: Asylum seekers denied right to food and shelter (April 2005)

Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the First Report of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China in the light of the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) (April 2001)

Submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on Hong Kong Human Rights Situation after the Change of Sovereignty (April 1998)

Submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the Third Periodic Report in respect of Hong Kong under articles 2 to 16 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (November 1996)

Submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on Housing Rights Violations and Poverty Problem in Hong Kong (November 1994)

Submission to United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (Back To Top)

Submission to The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child on the First Report of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (April 2005)

Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child on the Initial Report by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in respect of Hong Kong under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (September 1996)

Submission to United Nations Committee Against Torture (Back To Top)

Degrading strip search procedures by law enforcement agencies --- Special report to the United Nations Committee Against Torture on the Second Report by Hong Kong Special Administrative Region under Article 19 of the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (September 2008)

HKHRC Report to the UN Committee Against Torture on the initial Report by Hong Kong SAR under Article 19 of the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (April 2008)

HKHRC Report to the UN Committee Against Torture on the initial Report by Hong Kong SAR under Article 19 of the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (April 2000)
Submission to the United Nations Committee Against Torture on the Initial Report by Hong Kong under Article 19 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment ( November 1995)

Submission to United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Back To Top)

Hong Kong Human Rights Commission Society for Community Organization New Immigrants' Mutual Aid Association Asylum Seekers' and Refugees' Voice JOINT Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 75th Session (3-28 August 2009) regarding the Tenth to Thirteenth Reports of the People's Republic of China under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - Part two: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (July 2009)

Coalition for Racial Equality (CORE) and Hong Kong Human Rights Commission (HKHRC) JOINT Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination On the First Report in respect of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination (July 2001)

Submission to United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the Fourteenth Periodic Report in respect of Hong Kong under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (February 1997)

Submission to United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (Back To Top)

HKHRC Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the Initial Report by the HKSAR under the CEDAW (February 1999)

Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the Second Report of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (August 2006)

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