Recently, two human rights organizations from Hong Kong filed a joint submission to the U.N. Human Rights Committee (UNHCR) detailing the worsening human rights situation in Hong Kong and calling for the Committee to review China’s human rights violations.
The report, submitted on May 30, was prepared by the Hong Kong Human Rights Information Centre (HKHRIC) and the Hong Kong Rule of Law Monitor (HKRLM) as a non-governmental organization (NGO) submission ahead of the Committee’s 135th session.
Procedurally, following an NGO submission, the Human Rights Committee, a body of the U.N. that monitors the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) among its state parties, will then meet with the NGOs to discuss issues from the report before drafting a concluding observation of whether the state parties have fulfilled their obligations under the ICCPR….
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