Suhakam commissioner Jerald Joseph has questioned why fighting discrimination in Malaysia by ratifying the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Icerd) has become an issue, when the country is active in combating discrimination in other parts of the world.

"How is it possible that Malaysia, as a country which is actually very strong on fighting racial discrimination in so many parts of the world... when it comes to Malaysia, there is a polemic line that we have no need to uphold the elimination of racial discrimination?...