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FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1989

COPIES OF INTERNATIONAL COVENANTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS BEING DISTRIBUTED

INTERNATIONAL

ON

THE

THE GOVERNMENT IS DISTRIBUTING COPIES OF THE TWO

AS INFORMATION LEAFLETS COVENANTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS. AS WELL SUBJECT. TO SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

COPIES WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE CITY AND NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION,

THE DISTRICT OFFICES OF

THAT THE NEED TO A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (FRIDAY)

WAS HIGHLIGHTED AT THE PROMOTE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE COVENANTS

MEETING HELD IN GENEVA LAST UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE NOVEMBER, WHEN THE COMMITTEE CONSIDERED THE UNITED KINGDOM'S REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN ITS DEPENDENT TERRITORIES.

AS

QUESTION IN MARCH THIS THE

то GOVERNMENT PLANNED AS WELL

INFORMATION

IN REPLYING TO A LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL YEAR.

SAID THAT SECRETARY THE CHIEF DISTRIBUTE COPIES

COVENANTS OF THE LEAFLETS, ESPECIALLY TO SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

HE ALSO SAID

THAT

TWO

FURTHER EFFORTS TO

AROUSE THE PUBLIC'S OF THE TWO COVENANTS AWARENESS OF THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS AND AWARENESS WOULD BE MADE IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CIVIC EDUCATION COMMITTEE THE LAW SOCIETY'S COMMITTEE ON PROMOTING LEGAL AWARENESS.

AND

"THE

UK

RATIFIED

AND ON CIVIL INTERNATIONAL COVENANT INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL 1976." THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

GOVERNMENT

THE

TWO

THE (I.E. COVENANTS

AND THE POLITICAL RIGHTS

AND CULTURAL RIGHTS) IN

"THEY WERE INCLUDING HONG KONG,

то EXTENDED

BRITISH DEPENDENT

TERRITORIES,

OF COMMON

IN

"AT PRESENT, THE COVENANTS ARE IMPLEMENTED IN HONG KONG, AS

LAW.

LEGISLATION AND UK. THROUGH A COMBINATION ADMINISTRATIVE RULES.

THE

"AS HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED PREVIOUSLY, ACTIVE CONSIDERATION IS BEING GIVEN TO THE ENACTMENT OF A SEPARATE HUMAN RIGHTS ORDINANCE."

NOW

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