Government is proposing to lower the human rights protection that we citizens enjoy in the case of human rights and equality matters regulated by the proposed Bill, Law Professor Kevin Aquilina writes today.

Instead of the court structure, matters concerning the human rights and equality persons in the Bill will now be decided by a National Commission for Human Rights and Equality, a parallel body that the government wants to establish to the independent and impartial courts, he adds.

Why is the Equality Law regressive and should be ditched? Because the National Commission for Human Rights and Equality does not pass the independence and impartiality test. The National Commission fails the test of human rights itself, Prof Aquilina writes.

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