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Rights report made public
The United Kingdom Government's fourteenth periodic report on Hong Kong under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) has been sent to Legislative Councillors today (Monday). It will be formally tabled in the Legislative Council on Wednesday (November 27).
The report covers developments since the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) considered the thirteenth report in March this year. It addresses the points raised in the CERD's concluding observations.
"We aim to publish a bound version for general release before the end of December. Meanwhile, photocopies of the report are available to members of the public. It can also be downloaded from the Home Affairs Branch Internet Home Page," a Government spokesman said.
"We expect that the CERD will examine the report at its 50th session in March 1997," the spokesman added.
Free copies of the ICERD report (in English and Chinese) are now available at the Marketing Office of the Information Services Department on the 17th floor, Siu On Centre, 176-192, Lockhart Road, Wan Chai.
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Experimental project to network the elderly launched
An inter-departmental and territory-wide social networking for the elderly project is launched today (Monday) on a trial basis for two years to supplement the formal welfare services network.
The Director of Social Welfare, Mr Andrew Leung Kin-pong, said this today at a luncheon meeting of the Association of Chairman of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals.
He said the project was designed to identify and maintain a list of elderly persons requiring networking service in each district; and to identify service providers and volunteers to establish a network for maintaining contacts with elderly persons, providing them with support including making appropriate referrals for formal services.