Posts tagged 2018
Establishing Specific Offences to Criminalise 'Upskirting' Acts 《以特定罪行刑事化「裙底偷拍」行為》

In recent years, clandestine photo-taking has become a serious problem, with 285 reported cases in 2017 and 313 in 2016. One of the most rampant forms of clandestine photo-taking is upskirting, which involves taking photos or videos of a person from beneath their clothing without their consent. In the past three years, there have been 327 reported cases of upskirting in MTR areas alone, with an average of 100 cases annually. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg, as the number only includes incidents that took place in railway areas.

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Strategies to Tackle Gender-Based Violence in Ethnic Minority Communities: A Toolkit

Due to the lack of tried and tested resources to tackle GBV in Hong Kong’s Ethnic Minority communities, we turned to overseas expertise and partnered with UK-based organisation Maslaha to produce this toolkit. Some of the examples used in this toolkit are from the UK, to provide a guide and model for best practice which we can adapt to the HK context.

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