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CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS BP

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DRAFT LETTER

Dr Gabriel D. Donleavy

Chairperson

Amnesty International Hong Kong

Unit C3

Best-O-Best. Comm. Centre

32-36 Ferry Street

Kowloon

28 April 1993

United Nations World Conference on Human Rights:

Proposal for a National Review on Protection

of Human Rights

Thank you for your letter of 17 April in which you called on the Government to make use of the opportunity of the United Nations World Conference to initiate a National

Review on the extent to which international human rights covenants have been implemented in practice.

As you will be aware, States Parties to the

international covenants have the obligation to report regularly to the Human Rights Committee (or other relevant

United Nations organ) on

covenants concerned.

As a

United Kingdom, Hong Kong

prepare reports regularly

Government has

taken to

recognized in the various

the implementation of the

Dependent Territory of the

is accordingly required to

on the measures that the

give effect to the rights

international

covenants and