Messages against discrimination

Nationalist MP Clyde Puli said that unless discrimination was held in check it would become like a cancer: "invisible, merciless and relentlessly eating away at the very fabric of society".

"If we are all equal in human dignity, then we all have an equal right to have our human dignity respected fully and at all times," he said.

Mr Puli was speaking at the opening of an art exhibition, Sahha fid-Diversità (strength in diversity) at St James Cavalier.

The exhibition forms part of the national campaign being organised by the Jesuits Refugee Service and the National Commission Persons with Disability to raise awareness about what discrimination means for those who experience it directly, for the perpetrators and for society.

Among the works on display - which are not for sale - three were the work of secondary school students who had taken part in an art competition on the same theme.

The exhibition is on until November 13 and was organised with funds from the European Union within its Community Action Programme to Combat Discrimination.