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Academic Roundtable: “Universal Suffrage and Nomination Procedures: Imperatives from Article 25 ICCPR” live broadcast and press conference

20 Mar 2014

The Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong holds today (March 20) an Academic Roundtable to garner the reflections of international and local experts on the requirements of equal and universal suffrage as expressed in Article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

The conference will finish at 6pm, for details of the submissions made, the background brief that served as a basis for the discussion and for information about the Expert Panelists, please visit:
http://www.law.hku.hk/ccpl/events/Article25ICCPR.html.

A press Conference will be held tomorrow (March 21), panelists from the Roundtable discussion will present a set of Guiding Principles to elucidate the requirements under Article 25, which they will have determined based on their discussions at the Roundtable on ICCPR Article 25 held on 20 March 2014. The principles can serve as a basis to evaluate proposed models of reform for electing the Chief Executive and members of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong but are also to serve as general Guiding Principles for use more broadly by other jurisdictions undergoing a similar exercise in democratic or constitutional reform. Panelists may provide their views on specific proposals currently in the public domain in light of the newly developed Guiding Principles.

Details of the press conference are:
Date: March 21, 2014 (Friday)
Time: 12:00 noon
Venue: Room 901, 9/F, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Please kindly register with Ms. Joyce Fung at joycef@hku.hk if you will be in attendance. For other enquiries, please contact Ms. Sharron Fast at sfast@hku.hk.