[comp.archives] [soc.culture.hongkong...] Int'l Covenant & other documents for FTP

aaron@ahkcus.org (Aaron Y.T. Cheung) (04/09/91)

Archive-name: soc/hongkong/hongkong-bill-of-rights/1991-04-06
Archive: ahkcus.org:/doc/hk.bill-of-rights-90.* [192.55.187.25]
Original-posting-by: aaron@ahkcus.org (Aaron Y.T. Cheung)
Original-subject: Int'l Covenant & other documents for FTP (Re: HK & China News Forward)
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)

| BRITAIN came under heavy fire for its human rights record in Hongkong
| on the first day of a United Nations hearing in New York.
| 
|    Members of the Human Rights Committee also criticised Hongkong's
| handling of the Bill of Rights and the failure of Britain to allow
| the right of self determination for the people in the territory.
| 
|    The Bill of Rights is based on the UN's International Covenant
| on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which is referred to in the
| Basic Law.
| 
|    But the future mini-constitution makes no reference to the
| Bill of Rights.


HI. Softcopies of the following documents

        (a) INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

        (b) INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

        (c) HONG KONG BILL OF RIGHTS

        (d) BASIC LAW OF THE HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
              OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA


INTERNET users retrieval via Anonymous FTP:

        Machine:    ahkcus.org (192.55.187.25)
        FTP Login:  anonymous
        Password:   guest
        Directory:  /doc
        Files:              1113 lines   intl-covenant.cp-rights
                             548 lines   intl-covenant.esc-rights
                             845 lines   hk.bill-of-rights-90.ord
                             522 lines   hk.bill-of-rights-90.com
                             240 lines   hk.basic-law.1
                             361 lines   hk.basic-law.2
                             739 lines   hk.basic-law.3
                             345 lines   hk.basic-law.4
                             274 lines   hk.basic-law.5
                             239 lines   hk.basic-law.6
                             198 lines   hk.basic-law.7


BITNET and other network users retrieval via email:

     Send email to:

        iccpr-request@ahkcus.org     for file    intl-covenant.cp-rights
        icescr-request@ahkcus.org    for file    intl-covenant.esc-rights
        hkbr-request@ahkcus.org      for files   hk.bill-of-rights-90.*
        hkbl-request@ahkcus.org      for files   hk.basic-law.*


Regards,
/aaron.

Acknowledgments are due members of the Association of Overseas Hong Kong
Chinese for Democracy and Human Rights, Cambridge, MA, and other members
of AHKCUS in Chicago, IL, for making the above documents electronically
available here, /ac.