Global: Rights of parliamentarians must be respected - IPU

Rights of an elected parliamentarian must be respected as it impacts on the entire country, according to the Committee on Human Rights of the Interparliamentary Union (IPU). "... if the rights of an elected parliamentarian are not respected, this does not bode well for the ordinary citizens of those countries," says President of the IPU Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians, Sharon Carstairs, Thursday.