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PH delegates face more than 100 UNHRC members, say EJKs bloated in media

The Philippine delegation in Geneva, Switzerland led by Senator Alan Peter Cayetano and Deputy Executive Secretary Menardo Guevarra faced more than 100 representatives of the member-countries of the United Nations Human Rights Commission in defending the country’s human rights record. Cayetano explained there was a deliberate attempt to bloat the numbers on alleged extrajudicial killings. The Philippine delegates answered questions on drug-related killings under the Duterte administration. Cayetano said that the killings were not state-sponsored and […]

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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi reiterates stance on not using term ‘Rohingya’

    (Reuters)  Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights that the government will avoid using the term “Rohingya” to describe a persecuted Muslim minority in the country’s northwest, an official told Reuters on Monday. Members of the 1.1 million group, who identify themselves by the term “Rohingya” and live in apartheid-like conditions, are seen by many Myanmar Buddhists as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. The term is […]

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