本會外務副主席郭家齊在日內瓦舉行的聯合國會議上指出:近日香港的佔領運動中女性示威者遭到警方及「反對者」的暴力對待、語言恐嚇及侮辱,嚴重侵害女性政治參與權利。 Protesters’ sex abuse claims highlighted at UN meeting (SCMP 2014.10.21) //”Women’s right to participate in the social movement are threatened by violence condoned by police,” said Kwok Ka-chai, from the Women’s Coalition on Equal [...]
本會會員接受《南華早報》記者訪問,評論「婦女事務委員會」的表現,報導刊於8月10日出版的《南華早報》︰ “They’re not forward looking, they’re doing very little and the stuff they are doing with health, for example, is what a lot of district councillors, legislative councillors and NGOs are already doing,” said Annie Chan Hau-ming, a member of the Association for the Advancement of Feminism. “They should be tackling issues [...]
HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s Mandarin Oriental hotel stirred up ridicule on Friday with an afternoon-tea promotion for men based on pork pies and beef rather than dainty snacks “normally preserved for women”. The five-star hotel denied that its marketing campaign for the “Gentlemen’s Power Snack” and “Gentlemen’s Power Afternoon Tea” was sexist, but a women’s rights group heaped scorn on the language used in a press release. “The [...]
主席Annie 接受RTHK backchat 訪問 “Backchat, we’ll be talking about the status of women in Asia, as the recent rape and murder of a young woman in India causes a massive reaction in the country. There is a new generation of women leaders in Thailand, South Korea and perhaps Burma, but problems over issues like education for gorls has also be highlighted by recent events in Pakistan.” [...]