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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
16 February 1984
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Mr Robert Parry (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will state what international conventions on human rights have been signed by the United Kingdom but not ratified by the Hong Kong Government.
Mr
Richard Luce
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Of the international conventions relating to human rights
to which the United Kingdom is a Party, contained in the UN
list of Instruments on Human Rights, the following have
not been applied to Hong Kong:
five
have
The Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951.
The Protocol of 1953 amending the Slavery Convention
signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926,
The Convention against Discrimination in Education of 1960,
The Protocol of 1967 relating to the Status of Refugees.
The Protocol of 1962 Instituting a Conciliation and Good
Offices Commission to be responsible for seeking a
settlement of any disputes which may arise between States
Parties to the Convention against Discrimination in
Education.
All the others to which the UK is a Party apply to Hong Kong,
subject, in some cases, to certain reservations and
declarations which were published on ratification.
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