(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, March 7, slammed United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet following her remarks the country’s drug war “should not be considered a model by any country.” “Ilan beses na sinasabi natin na mas marunong pa sila dito sa bansa how to deal with our problems,”Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. According to Panelo, in the first place, Bachelet’s remarks were based on “information coming from the critics […]
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Hontiveros lashes out at Cayetano; urges Duterte admin to heed call of 38 states
(Eagle News) –Senator Risa Hontiveros lashed out at Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano, as she called on the government to heed the calls of 38 states for the Philippines to put an end to drug killings and to collaborate in a United Nations probe into the drug war. “I find Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano’s remark, saying that the 38 countries are simply biased and misinformed, ridiculous. So ibig sabihin biased ang Montenegro […]
US withdraws from ‘cesspool’ UN rights body
by Dave Clark / with Carole Landry at the United Nations © Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States | AFP The United States withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, condemning the “hypocrisy” of its members and its alleged “unrelenting bias” against Israel. The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, came to Washington to announce the decision alongside President Donald Trump’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Both insisted the United States […]





