HUMAN Rights Commission (HRC) Acting Chairperson Dr Pamela Sambo says the Commission will remain toothless as long as it has restrictive guiding legislation and policies. Speaking when she featured on Diamond TV’s “Costa” programme, Dr Sambo said there was little the Commission could do beyond pointing out human rights violations. “I will tell you one secret, when I was doing my third year of legal studies at the University of Zambia, that was in 1996 when I was doing human rights, the first thing I learnt about the national human rights institution which is the Human Rights Commission was that it was [a] toothless bulldog. It doesn’t surprise me so much that several years down the line and I am...