‘WJP Rule of Law Index 2022’: Hong Kong Not in Top 20 for the First Time
In the latest “Rule of Law Index 2022” released by the American NGO World Justice Project (WJP), Hong Kong dropped to 22nd among 140 countries and regions in the world, hitting a new low since it was included in the index in 2014. It fell in all eight key categories, with “Constraints on government powers” and “Fundamental rights” being the two items that received the lowest scores.
To be more specific, according to the WJP, Hong Kong’s overall score was 0.73, a decrease of 0.02 from last year and the second consecutive year that the ranking has dropped. Hong Kong ranked 19th in 2021, down from 16th in 2020….