Responding to the Hong Kong government proposing a registration system that would recognize same-sex partnerships formed overseas and grant such couples more rights, Amnesty International’s China Director Sarah Brooks said:
“The Hong Kong government’s proposal does not go nearly far enough in its claim to recognize the rights of same-sex couples in the city.
“For unmarried same-sex couples in Hong Kong, where it is not legal for them to marry, this proposal provides precisely nothing. They are still denied both recognition of their union and the full array of rights enjoyed by opposite-sex couples.
“While this proposal affords limited additional rights to couples who have married or registered as civil partners overseas, this falls far short of the CFA's instruction to establish a framework of recognition in Hong Kong.”