Jane Connors Editor

This compilation is a result of a joint project between the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Centre for Comparative and Public Law of the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong. Kirstine Adams formerly of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law, University of Hong Kong,  Andrew Byrnes, formerly Director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law and currently Professor of Law at the Australian National University, Jane Connors, formerly of the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women and presently of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Robyn Emerton, Centre for Comparative and Public Law and member of the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong.