Equal Opportunity Unit

• Opening ceremony by Prof. Joseph Lee, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Staffing) and Mr Lam Woon-kwong, Chairperson of Equal Opportunities Commission

  Please view Mr Lam's speech here

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  Talk by Mr Vivek Mahbubani on "the meaning of cultural diversity in a university context"

• Award presentation to winners of the 3 best proposals for making HKU an inclusive environment and a sharing by the winners on their proposals
  
• Booths by a secondary school/NGOs from 12:00noon to 5:00pm
  

Forum on “Cultural Diversity, Racial Equality & Social Inclusion at the University of Hong Kong”

Moderator: Ms Vandana Rajwani, Senior Teaching Consultant, Department of Professional Legal Education, HKU and Barrister-at-law

Speakers: Ms Annie Lin of Society for Community Organization (SOCO), Ms Adrielle Panares of International Social Service and 2 Student Representatives, namely Mr Muhammad Umar Yaqub and Ms Sara Valles Huerta

Stories of promotion of equal opportunities

To recognize the effort of staff/students in promoting equal opportunities, a number of stories will be selected and their stories will be displayed in Knowles Concourse from 22 March 2010 to 28 March 2010.

An online voting for the most popular story will be welcome from 9:00am of 22 March 2010 to 11:59pm of 28 March 2010 and please click the icon below during the said period and vote for the most popular story:

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  Talk by Ms Anna Wu Hung-yuk on "Equality & the Development Mandate" (1:00pm to 1:25pm)

  Ms Wu is a member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, chairperson of the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority, a member of the Law Reform Commission and the Working Group on Mediation of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. She was formerly the Chairperson of Equal Opportunities Commission and a member of the Legislative Council.

• Talk by Ms Cynthia Lam from the Equal Opportunities Commission on "Race Discrimination Ordinance" (1:25pm to 2:00pm)

Talk on Web and Document Accessibility by a representative from the Computer Centre.

Please visit the following link and view the representative from the Computer Centre’s presentation :
http://www.hku.hk/local/cc/training/Web%20Accessibility%20-%20Sharing.ppt

Prof. Stevenson Fung of the Department of Physics, a screen reader user will share his experience at the session. Audience can have a try on the work of a screen reader.

Please click here to view the Presentations.

• Closing Ceremony
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  Sharing Session by Mr So Wa Wai, 6-time Paralympic Gold Medalist

• Mr Gilbert Mo, a graduate of 1984 will deliver a speech on the rationale of setting up the "Inclusion Leadership Award for Exchange Programme" and "Social Inclusion Activities Grant"

  Mr Gilbert Mo is a Deputy Law Draftsman of the Department of Justice and is in charge of Chinese legislative drafting. He is one of the most experienced bilingual legislative counsels in Hong Kong.

• Mrs Cherry Tse, The Commissioner for Labour and other graduates of 1984 will present Certificates of Recognition on the Achievement of Excellence of HKU staff and students in promoting equal opportunities to awardees and Certificates to participants of the wheelchair challenge. 2 stories on the promotion of equal opportunities will be shared. Participants of the wheelchair challenge will be asked to share their experience during the post-challenge sharing session.
• Demonstration by Paralympic fencers
• Presentation of souvenirs
• Paralympics exhibition
  (from 10:00am to 4:00pm, Global Lounge)