Nazri proposes a special committee to discuss Suhakam's reports

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz has proposed the setting up of a special committee to discuss reports from the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) on human rights.

With the committee, human rights-related matters in the report could be championed continuously, instead of being debated in one day at Parliament.

"Human rights is an important issue. I don't think the report can be discussed in a day. They (Suhakam) have prepared a thick report within a year and it deserves more than a presentation," he said in reply to a supplementary question from M. Kulasegaran (DAP-Ipoh Barat) at the Dewan Rakyat here today.

Kulasegaran wanted to know what could be done to give more meaning to Suhakam and its report on human rights.

Mohamed Nazri said, like the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), the special committee on human rights would consist of several members of parliament and could have a sitting simultaneously or outside the Dewan Rakyat.