TNAG-1066-FCO40-1316-Human-rights-in-Hong-Kong-1981 — Page 102

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55. All mass exodus which took place during the decade under review poured forth from regions where the prevailing situation prevented individual citizens from exercising their political rights. It should be noted, however, that this constraint is not, in itself, the essential cause for large movements of population. Indeed, some countries seem to have succeeded in compensating the absence of democracy by ensuring that their peoples have access to material well being. This, coupled

with restrictions on freedom of movement, appears to have

stemmed the flow of what is still limited one-way traffic

from some countries.

Article 22: Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international Co- operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of

of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23: (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

(2) Everyone, without

without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

Article 24: Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, includ- ing reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

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