CHINA

Follow-Up: State Reporting

i) Action by Treaty body

CERD, A/62/18 (2007)

CHAPTER IV. FOLLOW-UP TO THE CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 9 OF THE CONVENTION

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501.	At its seventy-first session, the Committee also asked the Chairperson to send a letter to China, requesting detailed information to be received prior to its seventy-second session on the implementation of paragraph 247 of the concluding observations adopted at its fifty-ninth session (A/56/18) in which it expressed concern about the absence of legal provisions protecting persons from racial discrimination in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. This decision to request information from the State party was taken following receipt of information according to which the Race Discrimination Bill introduced into the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region does not appear to be in conformity with the Convention.

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