A. Political
System
1. Oppose
"Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Issues Relating to the Selection of the Chief
Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region by Universal Suffrage
and on the Method for Forming the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region in the Year 2016"（i.e. 8.31 Decision）。
2. Fight
for universal suffrage for LegCo and Chief Executive. Advocate the principle of universality and
equality in the establishment of an election system that is fair, just and open
for every citizen to elect the Chief Executive and the Legislative
Council. Regarding Chief Executive
election, the nomination mechanism should be one with low entry threshold and
adhering to the principles of universality and equality. Also, the stipulation that the Chief
Executive should not be member of any political party should be cancelled.
3. Oppose
legislating for Article 23 of the Basic Law.
4. Oppose
YC Leung’s continuation in office.
5. Defend
high degree of autonomy. Oppose
interpretation of the Basic Law by the National People’s Congress jeopardizing
the judiciary independence in Hong Kong.
6. Protect
and promote Hong Kong’s core values including democracy, freedom, rule of law,
justice, equal participation and so on.
Resist “mainlandization”, particularly the mainlandization of social
service organizations and defend the fairness and righteousness of the system
of social service resource allocation.
7. Fight
for vindication of the June Fourth Movement.
Foster social movement for the protection of rights. Preserve and defend the spirit of the
Umbrella Movement. Develop the capacity
of the civil society in response to the authoritarian regime and its
suppression.
B. Human
Rights
1. Set
up a Human Right Council according to the Paris Principles to protect and
promote adaptation of international human rights instruments as well as the
local laws related to human rights in an independent, transparent and
accountable manner.
2. Implement
international human rights instruments, and push for the ratification of
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and other human rights
instruments in Hong Kong.
3. Extend
the Bill of Rights protection to cases of private litigation so as to fully
protect human rights of the people.
4. Legislate
to protect the rights of non-discrimination and equal opportunities of the New
Arrivals, people of different ages and different sex preferences.
5. Promote
the development of civil society, including the development of NGOs, public
engagement for policy making. Defend
freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, press freedom and academic freedom.
6. Eliminate
the current mechanism that the Chief Executive is the ex-officio chancellor of
the universities in Hong Kong so as to further ensure academic freedom.
7. Concern
about the Administration of Activities of Overseas Non-Governmental
Organizations within the Territory of China and related laws and to protect
service autonomy and development space of Hong Kong NGOs in providing services
and empowering the disadvantaged in the mainland.
C. Policies
on Social Development and Social Welfare
1. Comprehensive
reform of social security system:
i. Fight
for the implementation of an non-means-tested universal retirement protection
system with reference to the “Universal Pension Scheme 2064” proposed by the
civil society.
ii. Immediate
cancellation of the offsetting mechanism between the MPF contributions and long
service payment or severance payment.
Monitor the impact of the newly established Core Fund in terms of its
ability to lower the management and administration fee, so as to find out more
effective measures to achieve the desirable outcome. Explore the feasibility of public annuity so
as to strengthen MPF’s function of retirement income protection.
iii. Reform
CSSA system towards a family friendly direction while enhancing incentive for
work.
iv. Strengthen
non-cash form of assistance, eg. in terms of medical service, food, housing and
transportation services.
v. Review
different social policies to see how they can strengthen function of family
carers.
2. Set
up a set of development goals according to a balanced development approach to
replace those based on an ideology that subsumes social development under
economic development.
3. Establish
regular institutional structure to identify and set short, medium, and long
terms planning standards and goals of welfare and services, as well as a
monitoring and alerting mechanism .
i. Service
programme plans for different services (Children, youth, family etc.);
ii. Service
manpower planning, including manpower and training plans on medical
professionals, nursing professionals, social workers, caring professionals and
so on ;
iii. Land
use and premise plan for welfare purpose in the future, as well as planning for
renovation of old facilities or premises.
4. Set
medium and long term poverty alleviation target and identify viable measures to
support low income people so as to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor
and eradicate poverty:
i. Foster
social justice. Provide the younger
generation with equal chance of development so as to avoid reproduction of
cross-generation poverty. Promote social
policies which are conducive to social mobility.
ii. Comprehensive
review and reform of taxation system so that people can share the fruit of
economic development by having a more progressive redistribution of income in
place.
iii. Foster
efforts on promoting diverse forms of bottom-up approach social economy
initiatives to unleash the potentials of the community and make them available
to the residents in the community create their own social and economic
eco-system, hence change their living environment and quality of life.
iv. In
addition to the existing poverty line, set up other measurement indicators to
measure the poverty problem of Hong Kong more accurately so that policies can
be made to alleviate it.
v. Keep
the Commission on Poverty. Set up
concrete poverty reduction/alleviation target and strategies.
vi. Improve
Low Income Working Family Allowance through lax of eligibility criteria (such
as working hours requirement) so that the low-income households can benefit.
vii. Improve
the review mechanism of the level of the Minimal Wage. Constantly rise the level of the Minimal Wage
so as to meet the living expenses of the grassroots working class.
5. Reform
LSG fundamentally. Strengthen its
support to the operation of NGOs so that they have the capacity to improve the
welfare and protection of their staff and the quality of services.
i. Change
the practice of using the mid-point of the salary scale as the baseline of
subvention.
ii. Improve
the baseline of subvention for supervision manpower for social work and
para-medical professions, central administration, and other charges. Provide funding for NGOs to contribute 10%
and 15% to MPF for those long service staff so as to strengthen their career
development and advancement.
iii. Increase
the pace of vetting and funding of the Lotteries Fund.
iv. Keep
the Social Welfare Development Fund.
D. Policies
for the Elderly
1. Legislation
against age discrimination
2. Devise
up a long-term care strategy. Increase
places of community care and residential care services so as to shorten the
waiting time for using such services.
Avoid overly relying on the market in the provision of both community
care and residential care services to mitigate the problems of lack of
effective monitoring and basic safety.
3. Review
and revise Residential Care Homes (Elderly Persons) Ordinance so as to improve
the service facilities and quality of both the public and private homes.
4. Monitor
the implementation of Community Care Service Voucher and ensure the quality of
the agencies operating the service.
Before a reliable monitoring system is in place, oppose the extension of
the voucher system to the private homes.
5. Strengthen
primary health care by working with the NGOs to meet the increasing needs
resulting from ageing population.
6. Establish
a Care Services Council to foster human resource development for the care
industry.
7. Leverage
innovative technology to encourage the sector to introduce the use of
technology in service development, management and operation.
8. Provide
half-price concession for elderly using public health care service. Increase the number of elderly health centre
and service quota. Provide basic oral
and teeth health service.
9. Establish
Elderly Friendly Communities in 18 districts in Hong Kong based on the WHO
framework. Inject resources into the
communities to facilitate development of related services and facilities.
10. Establish
inter-departmental committee to deal with terminal care service. Strengthen elderly home capacity in dealing
with terminal care. In the long run, a
model integrating the social and the medical is to be developed for terminal
care.
11. Precise
assessment and effective monitoring of the types and number of elderly with
dementia so as to plan and provide different types of support services for them
and their carers.
E. Youth
Policy
1. Foster
social and political participation:
i. Set
up Youth Citizen Council as a platform of participation and dialogue, thereby
creating favorable conditions and mechanism with respect to organization,
structure and resource to encourage youth to take part in policy formulation,
planning, consultation and decision making using a bottom-up approach.
2. Provide
adequate and multiple opportunities for education and development:
i. Increase
subsidized tertiary education places and increase subsidy to students living in
poverty (including those receiving CSSA) to support not just their tuition fee
payment but also other living expenses.
ii. Provide
multiple opportunities such as increasing places in HK Academy for Performing
Arts and Hong Kong Sports Institute for the different young people to pursue
different interests.
iii. Provide
different opportunities for those with different education attainments and
on-the-job to pursue further education at any life stage. Provide more subsidized part-time tertiary
programme for those who are earning low income and having low education attainment
to further their education.
iv. Develop
a diverse and fair economic and industry structure so that people of different
occupations with different education attainments may have development
chances. Intervene labor market through
labour policy such as raising the minimal wage.
v. Set
up a new mechanism of alleviating debt incurred by education so as to relieve
the young working adults from life pressure.
For example, those applying for non-means-tested debt should be free of
interest until they begin to work. On
the other hand, it is suggested to establish a mechanism that waive the debt
partially the young adults within the first 5 years after graduation and to
allow them to repay the debt based on their income affordability.
vi. Eliminate
the unfavorable design against the young applicant in the existing point system
for public rental housing allocation. On
the other hand, develop social housing to relieve the young people from the
heavy burden of rocketing rent and housing price, hence help those interested
in home purchase to accumulate asset.
F. Women
1. Promote
equal rights for men and women. Promote
women’s political participation and engagement and the status of women.
2. Reform
Women’s Commission by including them as one of the central mechanisms
withdrawing from the portfolio of Labour and Welfare Bureau.. On the other than, strengthen the idea
of“gender mainstreaming”in the governance and introducing gender budgeting in
the process of preparing the government budget.
3. Set
up “Domestic Violence Court”. Enhance
the gender sensitivity of the frontline law enforcement staff, Contact Centre
staff and Reconciliation Centre staff.
4. Set
up a one-stop crisis intervention centre for the victims of sexual violence in
all clusters of public hospitals.
5. Set
up a women health centre in each of the 18 districts in Hong Kong. Provide universal breast cancer and cervical
cancer assessment service at a low price.
G. Family
1. Provide
2 weeks paid paternity leave for male employees and 13 weeks paid maternity
leave for female. Promote post-maternity
home office arrangement.
2. Set
up Alimony Management Council to protect the livelihood of the divorced and
their children.
3. Set
up Parenting Coordination and Support Service Team to provide, with professional
staff establishment, a series of services to divorced families.
4. Support
parents to receive parent education by setting up a “Parent Education Fund”.
5. Strengthen
child care services. Increase places and
subsidy for child care services for children aged 0-3.
H. People
with Disabilities
1. Employ
all sorts of legislative, administrative or other forms of measures to
implement the ratified UN Convention for the Rights of the People with
Disabilities. The government should set up a specialized commission and appoint
people with disabilities and their carers to monitoring the implementation of
the Convention.
2. Review
and revise the Rehabilitation Programme Plan.
The government should catch up with the international practice by
introducing International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
to review and redefine disabilities.
3. Revise
the vetting system of Disability Allowance by adopting a more reasonable
definition of disabilities. Also, in
view of the problem of ageing of the people with disabilities, the latter
should be allowed to apply for both the Disability Allowance and Old Age
Allowance to enhance the level of protection.
4. Add
a category of allowance for people with disabilities with needs of high level
care to purchase life maintaining equipments/devices, medicine or medical
products.
5. Improve
employment policy for people with disabilities:
i. Legislate
to set up a quota of employments for people with disabilities. In the short run, the government, subvented
agencies and contracted service providers should be asked to meet a certain
indicators in terms of encouraging employment of people with disabilities.
ii. Use
cash or non-cash forms or strategies to support the employers, thereby creating
more opportunities for employment or other forms of economic participation.
iii. Leveraging
stakeholders at the community level to improve and enhance district level
supported employment service.
6. Promote
equal social participation:
i. Adopt
universal design in all buildings and walking spaces as well as in all public
transport facilities. Accelerate the process of enhancing all public transport
facilities as PwDs friendly.
ii. Increase
resource input to assist people with disabilities in using information and
communication technologies. Barrier
access to all kinds of information should be fully implemented. Emphases should be placed on developing sign
language interpretation on news and informational programme, audio description
service on arts and entertaining programme as well as mandatory barrier-free on
all websites.
7. Provide
equal opportunity for education. Provide
all sorts of supports to students with special education needs at pre-school,
primary, secondary and tertiary levels of education. These supports may include resources,
assistive facilities, teachers’ training and so on. This is to ensure these students can get
suitable level of support and care in the schools. On the other hand, a cross-profession
community service team should be set up to support NGOs, schools and families
to strengthen their capacities in meeting the needs of these students.
8. Strengthen
service monitoring. The government
should set a steering committee, with related policies, to monitor private
homes for the people with disabilities to guard against any harm done on the
latter.
9. Foster
service development by setting up long term service development goals,
thereby to alleviate the negative impact
of shortage of community care and residential care facilities and services. On
the other hand, related facilities should be include at the early stage of land
planning or redevelopment planning so as to reduce the level of resistance by
the community.
10. Demand
the government to provide sufficient and stable subsidy and support to self-help
groups of people with disabilities, chronically ill or their carers.
I. Ethnic
Minorities
1. Ensure
Equal Access to Public Services and Facilitate Equal Social Participation
i. Facilitate
full implementation of the Administrative Guidelines on Promotion of Racial
Equality (The Guidelines), and produce comprehensive policy rules and
regulations and offer additional designated resources to ensure implementation
of user-friendly measures for ethnic minorities to access all kinds of public
services.
ii. Establish
monitoring system to require all departments to set up concrete performance
indicators and collect service statistics for evaluating the effectiveness of
the implementation of the Guidelines. It should release statistics regularly
for public monitoring and closely communicate with relevant stakeholders to
solicit their opinions in improving service qualities.
2. To
Enhance Support in Education and Employment so as to Enable Ethnic Minorities
to Move Up the Social Ladder
i. Government
should take the lead to set targets in employing ethnic minorities and review
the language requirements of all positions in the Civil Service. It should
carry out measures to encourage corporations to employ ethnic minority staff.
ii. Chinese
as second language education policy should begin in the kindergarten.
Government should form special task force in developing teaching materials and
publishing textbooks to facilitate teaching and learning of Chinese as second
language.
3. To
Enhance Community Education and Community Development Work
i. Government
should provide additional support to social groups in promoting
anti-discrimination education and enhancing ethnic minorities’ concern on their
rights, as well as facilitating dialogue between relevant stakeholders so as to
resolve social conflicts.
J. Housing
Policies
1. Increase
construction of Public Rental Housing and Home Ownership Scheme flats to meet
the needs of the grassroots and the middle-class households.
2. Keep
the policy pledge of allocating Public Rental Housing in 3 years and provide
rental subsidy for those who are not yet allocated PRH flats after 3 years.
3. Give
policy and administrative supports to NGOs, social enterprises and social
entrepreneurs who attempt to try other forms of housing such as transitional
housing, social housing.
4. Identify
and implement short and medium measures to phase out the indecent housing,
thereby helping to relieve the anxiety of the grassroots residents in waiting
for public rental housing.
5. Review
Landlord and Tenant (Consolidation) Ordinance and introduce measures to enhance
the private rental market functioning.
6. Give
special considerations to social groups with special needs (eg, elderly, ethnic
minorities and so on) in planning and constructing public housing.
K. Community
Development
1. Follow
up on the Policy Statement on Community Development released in June 2005 to
formulate long term community development service strategy.
2. Develop
Community Centre service to encourage residents’ participation and
collaboration for community building by establishing one in each of the 18
districts in Hong Kong.
3. Establish
Community Development Team in newly established and old public housing estates
to strengthen community support to residents and foster mutual help among them.
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