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...decade of campaigning by activists, with Wong in the forefront, Hong Kong's government in July 2008 put into effect its first anti-racial-discrimination legislation, which in theory allows individual residents to take action against businesses and employers that have discriminated against them because of their skin color. But the law is difficult to enforce and, unlike other ordinances covering gender and disability, exempts many government bodies. A U.N. committee on eliminating racial discrimination, based in Geneva, voiced concerns over the law's scope in August last year...