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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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