Bridging Differences, Embracing Racial Diversity
Racial discrimination is giving less favourable treatment to a person on the ground of race. Racial harassment is an unwelcome conduct made on the ground of somebody's race or his/her associate's race, in circumstances in which a reasonable person would have anticipated that the person would feel offended, humiliated or intimidated.
The University embraces equality, ethics, civility, diversity in all our endeavours, and strongly opposes racial discrimination in any form.
Find out what the Faculty is doing to support learning, research and knowledge exchange related to human rights and racial diversity within Hong Kong, the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
Equality Rights Project by Faculty of Law
The Equality Rights Project aims to advance social inclusion and equality through collaborations with lawyers, NGOs and other centres to promote legal education, legal empowerment and legal research. It focuses rights of marginalised groups, including persons with disabilities, women, children, sexual and gender minorities, especially those with intersecting identities and multiple vulnerabilities. Through training workshops, online courses, public lectures, and thematic seminars, the Equality Rights Project aims to transfer knowledge to grassroots communities and strengthen the capacity of various advocates.
Aligned with the principle of “nothing about us without us,” the project works closely with members of the disabled community. Both its research and knowledge exchange events are grounded in a person-centred and community-based approach, empowering persons with disabilities from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan to develop their own narratives, and actively and inclusively participate in interdisciplinary research.
The Equality Rights Project serves as a Chinese- speaking platform with the broadest audience base that adopts a human rights approach to convey the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to grassroots communities and the broader public. In doing so, it strives to challenge the dominant medical approach to disability studies and public awareness prevalent in mainland China and Hong Kong.
Publication Project - Journey With Me Through Hong Kong, My Home
The publication marks a milestone in advancing the DEIJB Lab’s work and objectives of co-creating resources with key stakeholders from within the community to eliminate harmful stereotypes and unconscious biases.
The highlight of this collaborative project, which was borne out of a DEIJB Lab Summer Fellowship scheme, was that it was co-developed with and from the perspective of Hong Kong Chinese students, integrating their learnings about unconscious biases from the findings from Prof. Puja Kapai’s study on Doing Equality Consciously: Understanding Unconscious Bias and its Role and Implications in the Achievement of Equality in Hong Kong and Asia (2018) and other work, including the Status of Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong (2015), HongKonger: Ethnic Minority Youth - Aspirations, Challenges and Identity (2018) and Dreams of Pakistani Children (2019).
For more project details, please visit www.hku.hk/press/press-releases/detail/28460.html
For details of the above projects, the English version shall prevail.