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Kong to speed up their consideration of the matter.
4.
On 16 December Emily Lau introduced a motion to Legco
calling on HKG "to support the extension to Hong Kong of CEDAW
and to request the British Government to take the necessary
action to so extend the convention forthwith". Shortly before
this EXCO decided to publish a green paper on women's rights in
1993. Initially HKG intended to introduce an amendment to the
motion permitting it to take no action until it had consulted
the public. In the event it did not move the amendment for tactical reasons (presumably it judged that the amendment would
be defeated). The unamended motion was passed by a clear margin
and HKG announced that it did not regard the result as
precluding it from issuing its green paper on the subject.
5. The letter from AWARE also raises a separate issue. It
argues that as only those economically active will be voting in
functional constituencies women will be under-enfranchised.
This is exacerbated by the fact that appointees have in the
past resulted in a greater percentage of women than elections.
The Governor has already dealt with this point in his reply to
them (attached).
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