A 10-member Hong Kong team will attend a United Nations hearing on the Government's second report under the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights in New York on March 20 and 21. To read the report, click here.

Permanent Secretary for Home Affairs Carrie Lam will lead the team with Solicitor General Robert Allcock as her deputy. The delegation also includes officials from the Constitutional Affairs and Security Bureaux.

The team will explain to the United Nations Human Rights Committee the contents of the Government's report and answer the committee's questions on the implementation of the covenant in Hong Kong.

This is the second time the committee has examined a report on Hong Kong since 1997. The first such occasion was in November 1999.

The International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights is one of the six major human-rights treaties that apply to Hong Kong and it has done so since 1976.