星期六, 12月 02, 2006

Hong Kong forced to act on racism

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Hong Kong forced to act on racism
November 29 2006 at 01:27PM


Hong Kong - Hong Kong, bowing to pressure from civil rights groups, proposed new laws on racial discrimination on Wednesday to protect the rights of the city's ethnic minorities.

Under the Race Discrimination Bill, which requires legislative approval, "racial discrimination and harassment" in certain areas and "vilification on the grounds of race" will become illegal and punishable by fines and jail terms of up to two years.

"We are introducing the bill because we have international obligations to do so (and) because we have now gained general community support for legislation," said Carrie Lam, the government's Permanent Secretary for Home Affairs.

Racism is not often explicit or violent in Hong Kong but the city's many foreign migrant workers have often been denied jobs, accommodation or school places on the basis of their ethnicity.

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