The United Ants (Chinese:蟻聯) was a short-lived civil group in the 1990s loosely formed by workers and professionals for the protection of civil and political rights that are laid out in the Bill of Rights Ordinance and the government's implementation of human rights and dmeocracy and worried about the post-1997 future .[1]

One of the member, Lee Miu-ming lost in a lawsuit against the government's functional constituency in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in which they argued it violated the Bill of Rights Ordinance and its principle of equal voting.

In the summer of 1994, the group gained media attention by criticising four members of the Meeting Point (Leong Che-hung, Fred Li, Tik Chi-yuen and Zachary Wong) for abstaining from voting for Emily Lau's (the then pro-democracy Independent legislator for the New Territories East constituency) full-scale direct election amendment of Governor Chris Patten's 1995 LegCo election bill.

Law Yuk-kai, the director of the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor was its leader.[2] Many notable members of the United Ants including Cyd Ho joined the newly formed pro-democracy party the Frontier in 1996.

References

  1. ^ Butenhoff, Linda (1999). Social Movements and Political Reform in Hong Kong. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 97.
  2. ^ Tam, Waikeung (2009). Legal Mobilization Under Authoritarianism: A Historical-institutionalist Study of Post-colonial Hong Kong. ProQuest. p. 73.