A 10-member team led by Permanent Secretary for Health, Welfare & Food Sandra Lee will attend a hearing under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - or CEDAW - in New York on August 10 as part of the China delegation.

Other team members include Women's Commission Chairperson Sophia Kao, and representatives from the Department of Justice, the Home Affairs, Education & Manpower, and Economic Development & Labour Bureaux.

The team will explain to the UN CEDAW Committee contents of Hong Kong's second report under the convention and answer questions on the convention's implementation in the city.

Hong Kong's second report was submitted as part of China's combined fifth and sixth report in early 2004. It details the progress made since February 1999, when the committee last examined Hong Kong's initial report under the convention.

Details of the second report and the Government's response to questions in February from the CEDAW committee over the second report are available here.