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Fighting for Rights

Twenty years ago, research by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service on the behaviour of charitable donors found that while most were willing to give to children, education and elderly people, the proportion of donations to human rights and women’s rights was less than five per cent.

It’s a number that Patricia Ho, human rights lawyer, law lecturer and founder of the Hong Kong Dignity Institute, a non-profit whose mission is to restore dignity to and advocate for the rights of Hong Kong’s most vulnerable, doesn’t

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