Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women (ACSVAW), Hong Kong Committee on Children's Rights (HKCCR), Plan International Hong Kong, and TALK Hong Kong today launched a Joint Position Paper to urge the Hong Kong Government to close legal loopholes and modernise the city's legal framework regarding child sexual abuse. The paper has garnered the support of 32 signatories from children's rights organisations, anti-sexual violence groups, and individual professionals.
Read MoreCo-organised by ACSVAW and CCPL HKU Law, the Forum aims to foster meaningful dialogue between academics, legal practitioners, policymakers, advocates, and other like-minded professionals on how to improve our criminal justice response to sexual violence that truly aligns with the experience of victim-survivors.
Read MoreThe Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women’s preliminary response to the release of consultation paper on Sentencing and Related Matters in the Review of Sexual Offences by The Law Reform Commission.
Read MoreThe Association welcomes the Law Reform Commission’s release of Review of Substantive Sexual Offences report this morning (5th December 2019). The report has offered final recommendations following years of consultation conducted by the Review of Sexual Offences Sub-committee. The Association expects these recommendations to be implemented shortly.
Read MoreThe Association welcomes the recent release of Report on Voyeurism and Non-consensual Upskirt Photography by the Law Reform Commission (LRC) on the 30th April 2019. The Association would anticipate the proposed legal reform can be implemented as soon as possible to patch the current legal loopholes.
Read MoreThe Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women would express its anticipation and concerns towards the release of the Law Reform Commission's Report on Voyeurism and Non-consensual upskirt-photography on 30th April 2019.
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