NRI to chair Canadian rights panel

Navdeep S Bains, a Canadian MP, will head the panel mandated to study cases of rights abuses worldwide.

Navdeep Singh Bains, an Indo-Canadian MP, has been elected chairman of a Canadian subcommittee on human rights.

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Bains, the MP for Mississauga-Brampton South constituency has been election chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Development of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, reports the South Asian Observer.

Reacting to his appointment Bains said, "I am honoured to have been elected as the new chairman. It has always been my personal passion to further the cause of human rights in Canada and abroad.

"I consider human rights a non-partisan issue and I look forward to working with my colleagues from all parties," he added.

The subcommittee is mandated to study various cases of human rights abuses around the world.