The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation has taken aim at Prime Minister Robert Abela's statements in Parliament, regarding migration and human rights.

Malta's Prime Minister Robert Abela told Parliament that current human rights conventions are 'outdated' and need 'revising', the foundation said on social media. "It is disturbing that the incoming Council of Europe president is planning to revise the European Convention on Human Rights while claiming that Malta will continue to fight for human rights as long as they are 'merited'."

"Malta's inhumane policy towards migrants is not new, but tampering with the ECHR to deny human rights is a new low. We remind Abela, as Prime Minister and as incoming Council of Europe president, that human rights are universal and indivisible, and refer him to this article, 'The Alternative to Civilised Behaviour', published on Christmas Eve in 2009."

The article in question was penned by Daphne Caruana Galizia, and was published in The Malta Independent.

The foundation quoted the article: "When boat-people stopped landing in Malta and it became increasingly obvious that Libya had begun to stop them leaving because of diplomatic and other pressures, I voiced my concern to somebody in precisely these words: 'My God, I dread to think what's being done to them there.' The woman to whom I spoke said: 'Yes, but you can't reason that way, because it's not our problem. Our concern is with making sure they don't come here'."

"That's not how I see it. People who are prevented from coming to our country by means of torture and other serious abuse should weigh heavily on our conscience."