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Employment Symposium on "Creating Resettlement Opportunities for Ex-Offenders through Employment"

20 Nov 2007

A symposium on "Creating Resettlement Opportunities for Ex-Offenders through Employment" jointly organised by the Correctional Services Department (CSD) and The University of Hong Kong Centre for Criminology, will be held on Wednesday (November 21).  The symposium will start at noon in Loke Yew Hall of HKU.  

The symposium aims at calling on employers to give equal employment opportunities to rehabilitated offenders, thereby facilitating their re-integration into society as law-abiding citizens. 

Commissioner of Correctional Services, Mr Kwok Leung-ming; Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences, Professor Ian Holliday; and Acting Director of Centre for Criminology, Professor John Bacon-Shone, will attend the event.

Intellectuals, government officials and representatives of Non-government Organisations will introduce employment support available for rehabilitated offenders, employers will talk about their experience of hiring ex-offenders, and a rehabilitated offender will share his path of rehabilitation.  

You are invited to cover the symposium which is expected to last for three hours.  Media representatives are requested to assemble outside Loke Yew Hall before 11:45am. Officers from CSD's Public Relations Section will be on hand to assist.

Date:       Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Venue:      Loke Yew Hall, 1/F, Main Building, The University of Hong Kong
Time:       11:45am  Arrival of Media Representatives
                12:00nn   Symposium on "Creating Resettlement Opportunities for
                               Ex-Offenders through Employment"