On behalf of BritishHongKong, I am truly delighted to announce that BritishHogKong has successfully joint the membership of the three following organisations: Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), and Justice.
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The BritishHongKong Forum, though not representing BritishHongKong, has created an enormous positive impact upon our organisation.
Our Core Group have indeed been the focus of our organisation in drafting letters.
A blog that is dedicated to the remembrance of our very own former British Crown Colony.
In order to enhance our service to those who need out help, BritishHongKong has now installed a call centre. Thank you.
• 01312081008 UK
• 81913221 Hong Kong
• 00441312081008 (calls from outside HK and the UK)
Legislative Scruting: Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill 9th Report of Session 2008-09
In this report, we welcome the introduction of the new positive duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in the discharge of immigration, asylum, nationality and customs functions. This is a human rights enhancing measure which is a long overdue reversal of the Government’s previous policy, which excluded children subject to immigration control from the protection of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
We will be looking carefully for evidence that this welcome change in …
South China Morning Post’s article by Ambrose Leung has indeed misrepresented BritishHongKong by solely emphasising one of the aims, which is dangerously misleading to the general public in Hong Kong. It is indeed tremendously clear that the core aim of the organisation is “fighting for both full British and European Citizenship”, rather than “educating BN(O) passport holders to be proud British.” Such misrepresentation of BritishHongKong has to be pointed out.
Furthermore, BritishHongKong has never had any formal interview with SCMP and Mr Sham has stated that, at an informal meeting, …
BritishHongKong welcomes such amendment from HM government in reducing statelessness within the category of BN(O). Such act is indeed to fulfil the promises from HM government made, in 1997, to those BN(O)s of HK ethnic minorities that they would not be stateless.
However, BritishHongKong thinks that it is of equal importance that HM government also needs to reconsider the matter of reducing the elements of racial discrimination in the current nationality law, which is entirely incompatible with Protocol 4 to the ECHR, by denying some categories of British nationality right …