Former judge and Parliamentary Ombudsman Joseph Zammit McKeon has warned that people in Malta have been denied the full protection of anti-discrimination rights for 10 years, because MPs have still not put a key human rights protocol into Maltese law. In a strongly worded statement marking the 10th anniversary of Protocol No. 12 coming into force in
Maltese citizens are being blocked from fully fighting discrimination in local courts because the government has failed to add a key international treaty to Maltese law, a decade after it was signed, according to the Ombudsman. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Ombudsman and former judge Joseph Zammit McKeon said that while Malta officially agreed
Maltese citizens have been denied full protection against discrimination in local courts for the past decade because the government failed to incorporate a key international human rights treaty into national law, the Ombudsman said on Wednesday. In a statement marking the 10th anniversary of Malta's ratification of Protocol No. 12 to the European Convention
Ten years after Malta brought Protocol No. 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights into force at an international level, it “is still not part of the laws of Malta,” according to a statement by the Ombudsman raising concerns about people’s ability to seek justice in discrimination cases. The protocol, which took effect for Malta on 1 April 2016,
