PARLIAMENT | Rembau MP Khairy Jamaluddin has questioned the impact of Putrajaya's plan to sign unratified UN human rights conventions and how this would affect bumiputera special privileges.

Khairy said the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, for example, bars signatories from enforcing "positive discrimination" policies after the goals for which they were implemented were met.

As he pointed out, however, Article 153 of the Federal Constitution clearly spells out the special status given to the bumiputera...