Tag: United Nations Human Rights Council

Duterte says cutting ties with Iceland may affect Filipinos there

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, July 17, acknowledged  cutting ties with Iceland may affect the Filipinos working there. Earlier, Duterte said he was seriously considering severing ties with the Nordic country which was behind  the resolution narrowly adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council  and which sought for an international probe into the Philippines’ drug war. Foreign Affairs  Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. rejected the proposal and the calls for the Philippines to leave […]

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Callamard thanks UN human rights council for adopting resolution pushing review and report on PHL drug war

  (Eagle News) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur for extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions thanked the United Nations Human Rights Council for adopting the resolution seeking a comprehensive written report into Philippone government’s drug war. In her tweet, UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard said that she was also thanking the UN human rights body “on behalf of the thousands of victims of a senseless war on drugs, the dozens of murdered defenders, lawyers, farmers […]

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Full text of Locsin’s statement after UNHRC adoption of resolution pushing comprehensive report on Duterte drug war

Foreign affairs chief says PHL will be “Friend to friends, enemy to enemies, and a worse enemy to false friends.” (Here is the full text of the statement of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., on the adoption by the United Nations Human Rights Council of the Iceland resolution pushing a comprehensive review and report of the drug war under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.) In 1945, the Philippines, along with 50 other states, […]

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Locsin says validity of UNHCR resolution pushing report on Duterte drug war “highly questionable”

14 states , including Philippines, reject Iceland-authored resolution (Eagle News) – The Philippines, along with 13 other countries, rejected a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution pushed by Iceland and other Western nations that sought a comprehensive written report on the Philippine drug war under President Rodrigo Duterte. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr was scathing in his statement read after the UN human rights body voted in favor of a draft resolution pushed by […]

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Palace: UN rights body intruding in PHL sovereignty with support of int’l probe into De Lima’s case

(Eagle News) — The Palace on Friday, Dec. 21, said the support of a body of the United Nations Human Rights Council  for a probe into what it said were the human rights violations against Senator Leila de Lima constituted an “intrusion of our sovereignty.” “They have been saying that and we’ve been saying that the problem with you people is you’re listening to the critics of this administration. You are not investigating on your own,” […]

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Cayetano: Number of votes PHL got to be reelected to UNHRC proof int’l community is confident in Duterte admin’s rights record

(Eagle News)–For Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano, the number of votes the Philippines got to be reelected to the United Nations Human Rights Council “speaks volumes of the confidence of the international community on the human rights record of the Duterte administration.” On Friday, 165 out of 192 member-states voted for the Philippines’ reelection for 2018 to 2020. Apart from the Philippines, Bahrain, Cameroon, Somalia, Bangladesh, and Eritrea were voted into the body. “We […]

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CHR to PHL gov’t following UNHRC reelection: Address “numerous allegations of human rights violations”

(Eagle News)—The Commission on Human Rights on Saturday, Oct. 13, said the Philippines’ reelection to the United Nations Human Rights Council “puts pressure on the Philippine government to address numerous allegations of human rights violations, starting with the growing cases of extrajudicial killings purportedly linked to the government’s campaign against illegal drugs.” According to the CHR, the country’s “credibility to be part of this body” after all “rests on its ability to effect actions that will […]

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Panelo: PHL reelection to UN Human Rights Council a “recognition that our gov’t respects human rights”

(Eagle News)–Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Saturday, Oct. 13, said the Philippines’ reelection to the United Nations Human Rights Council was “recognition that our government respects human rights and will not tolerate abuse by those in authority.” In a statement, Panelo said the reelection was a “repudiation of the critics and detractors on President Duterte’s unrelenting war against illegal drugs.” He said with the reelection, the UN-HRC  acknowledges the administration’s campaign against illegal drugs, corruption, and criminality […]

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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 […]

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Some 40 UNHRC member-countries concerned about drug-related killings, death penalty reimposition in PH

QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Several members of the United Nations Human Rights Council expressed grave concern over the alleged incidents of extra-judicial killings in the Philippines, this after Senator Alan Peter Cayetano gave an account of the human rights record of the Philippines before the international body in Geneva, Switzerland. The delegates from the United States and Australia said that it was important that the government look into the alleged 7,000 reported incidents of extra-judicial killings to identify […]

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16-man delegation nasa Geneva para idepensa ang Philippine drug war

(Eagle News) — Dumating na sa Geneva, Switzerland ang labing anim (16) na miyembro ng delegasyon ng Pilipinas para dumalo sa isasagawang Universal Periodic Review ng United Nations Human Rights Council. Pinangunahan nina Senador Alan Peter Cayetano at Deputy Executive Secretary Menardo Guevarra ang delegasyon upang idepensa ang war on drugs na inilunsad ng administrasyong Duterte. Kabilang sa mga kasama sa delegasyon ang mga kinatawan mula sa Presidential Human Rights Committee, Deputy Speaker ng Kamara […]

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