On 27 July 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (“Committee”) issued the concluding observations (“CO”) on Hong Kong’s implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (“ICCPR”), which elaborated the Committee’s observations and recommendations in detail.
Given that more than half a year has passed, Hong Kong Centre for Human Rights (“HKCHR”) believes it is a good time to review the city’s implementation of the Committee’s recommendations. We thus produced a report to thoroughly record the government’s compliance with and/or defiance of the recommendations on ten selected major topics in the period between 27 July 2022 and 31 March 2023 (“the Reporting Period”).
In summary, HKCHR found that the Hong Kong government refused to implement any recommendation made by the Committee as to the ten selected topics. Instead, with undisguised contempt for the UN human rights mechanism, the government continues its human rights violations and even proactively exacerbates the infringements in some cases.
HKCHR urges the Hong Kong government to adopt and implement all of the Committee’s recommendations immediately.
Please click here to find our full report. If you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact us via press@hkchr.org