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Government should change laws weakening indigenous rights: Submission

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Standing Committee on Justice, Law and Human Rights chairman Alvick Maharaj (standing). Picture: FT FILE/SERAFINA SILAITOGA

THE Government should change laws weakening indigenous rights before enacting the Code of Conduct Bill, Parliamentarians were told yesterday.

Savusavu resident and retired civil servant Laisiasa Wainikesa told the Standing Committee on Justice, Law and Human Rights during a public consultation held in Savusavu yesterday that the Bill must be specific about human rights.

“What human rights are we talking about? Why introduce the Bill on the Code of Conduct for public officers to implement Decrees (Acts) which are opposed to human rights conventions – that’s my question?”

More on this story in today’s (Friday, January 18) edition of The Fiji Times.

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