The Church Schools Association has asked for the final step in Parliament on a Bill proposing the establishment of a new Human Rights and Equality Commission to be delayed in favour of more consultation taking place on it. Malta is set to establish its first National Commission for Human Rights and Equality under a new bill which the government says
A group of NGOs have called on the government to allow more consultation on a bill which went before parliament last week. The Human Rights and Equality Bill establishes a National Commission for Human Rights and Equality and introduces into Maltese law Article 1 of the Twelfth Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental
A coalition of NGOs and civil society organisations is calling on the Maltese government to open a proper public consultation period on the Equality Bill 2026 before it moves forward in Parliament. The group said the bill, which deals with issues such as equality, discrimination and fundamental rights, is too important to be rushed through without
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
A democracy is measured not only by the rights it recognises but by the institutions it builds to protect them. Parliament has taken an important step towards strengthening one of the foundations of any democratic society: the protection of human rights. The bill establishing Malta’s National Commission for Human Rights and Equality is about much more