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Annex A
COMMENTARY ON THE DRAFT
HONG KONG BILL OF RIGHTS ORDINANCE 1990
INTRODUCTION
Members of the public are invited to comment
on
the draft of the Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance 1990,
Submissions should be addressed to :
by 16 March 1990.
Secretary for Constitutional Affairs
Government Secretariat
5/F Central Government Offices (East Wing)
Lower Albert Road
Hong Kong
BACKGROUND
2.
In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations
adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The
Declaration set out the general principles of human rights
standard of achievement for all peoples and
'as a common
all nations'.
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