UN to receive rights report

Officials will report to the United Nations on women's rights early next year.

But concern groups have given a lukewarm response to the two-day hearing beginning on February 1 in New York.

The government delegation comprises four to five members of the Home Affairs Bureau and Department of Justice. It will be the first time the Government has attended a UN hearing since the handover.

The report under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was put into the mainland's report for submission in August.

A Home Affairs Bureau spokeswoman said a separate hearing had been scheduled for Hong Kong's report.

She said Beijing officials would not be speaking on behalf of the SAR.