'Leaders should declare if they back Anwar's needs-based affirmative action'

Political leaders in the country should declare whether they agree with PKR president Anwar Ibrahim's position that there should be a shift towards needs-based affirmative action, says Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) commissioner Jerald Joseph.

"Maybe we need to send letters to every YB to ask whether they agree or not," he said, adding that there was also a need to articulate why a needs-based approach works well...