In a series of media interviews this month, EOC Chairperson, Mr Ricky CHU Man-kin shared that the Commission had made a number of legislative recommendations to the Government for addressing discrimination between Hong Kong Chinese and Mainland Chinese people. 

The EOC’s acclaimed anti-discrimination and anti-harassment training courses will return this November and December. Among the six paid courses is a new offering titled “The Disability Discrimination Ordinance and the Race Discrimination Ordinance in Education”.

The average mental health score of Hongkongers has increased from last year, but it continues to fall short of the “passing mark”, as revealed by the latest Hong Kong Mental Health Index on 26 October 2021.

As kindergartens have started admitting students for the 2022-23 school year, the EOC recently produced videos in Nepali and Urdu to explain to Nepalese and Pakistani parents the admission arrangements and related protections under the Race Discrimination Ordinance.

The Hong Kong Poverty Situation Report on Ethnic Minorities 2016 unveiled that one in every five ethnic minority households was living in poverty. What has changed since then? And what is the way forward for racial equality? To address these questions, The Zubin Foundation will host its inaugural conference, “What Is the Status of Hong Kong’s Ethnic Minorities?” on 9 November 2021.