Hong Kong equality watchdog wants laws tightened to provide more protection for victims of sexual harassment

Hong Kong’s equality watchdog is pressing on with proposals to plug loopholes in the city’s sexual harassment law, with its head shrugging off talk that recent political changes have affected its efforts to increase protections for the vulnerable.

Ricky Chu Man-kin, who chairs the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), said the Sex Discrimination Ordinance (SDO) was in need of an amendment because current provisions did not cover some forms of harassment in common social settings.