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(Eagle News)—-The Palace on Thursday, Aug. 9, welcomed the selection of Chile’s former President Michelle Bachelet as the next United Nations human rights chief. “I think the (s)election of this new High Commissioner for Human Rights must be a result of compromise and we’re optimistic that we will have better relations with the new High Commissioner for Human Rights,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. President Rodrigo Duterte had engaged in a word war with Jordan’s Zeid […]
(Eagle News)—-The United Nations on Friday, July 27, lauded the signing of the Bangsamoro Organic Law, calling it a “landmark achievement.” “The Secretary-General welcomes the signing into law of the Organic Law for Bangsamoro in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao on 26 July, a landmark achievement on the road to lasting peace in southern Philippines,” a statement released by the spokesman for UN Secretary General António Guterres said. The statement said the Secretary-General also “congratulates […]
(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 […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Saturday, June 22, reiterated the government was always implementing the law even without foreigners telling it to do so. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the comment after 38 states called on the Philippines to put a stop to what they said were drug killings and to cooperate in an international probe during the 38th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, June 18. The 38 nations– Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, […]
by Nina LARSON Agence France-Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — A record 68.5 million people have been forced flee their homes due to war, violence and persecution, notably in places like Myanmar and Syria, the UN said on Tuesday. By the end of 2017, the number was nearly three million higher than the previous year and showed a 50-percent increase from the 42.7 million uprooted from their homes a decade ago, according to a report by […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Supreme Court has set oral arguments for the petition seeking to have the Philippines’ withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court declared as invalid. Oral arguments on the petition for certiorari and mandamus filed by Senators Francis Pangilinan, Franklin Drilon, Paolo Benigno Aquino IV, Leila de Lima, Risa Hontiveros and Antonio Trillanes IV were slated on July 24, at 2 p.m., at the SC’s session hall. […]
by Carole Landry Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The UN Security Council will pay a visit to Bangladesh and Myanmar beginning Saturday as it weighs next steps to address one of the world’s worst refugee crises, stemming from the forced exodus of Muslim Rohingya. Myanmar has come under international scrutiny since a military campaign launched in August drove more than 700,000 Rohingya from their homes in northern Rakhine state and into […]
(Eagle News) — Some lawyers’ groups have asked the United Nations Special Rapporteur to “take urgent action” on President Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncements that they allege “punctuate the long-winded attacks on judicial independence…” “The recent tirades of the President against the Chief Justice do not sound at all foreboding..,” the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Alternative Law Groups, the leftist National Union of People’s Lawyers, Ateneo Human Rights Center, Free Legal Assistance Group, Manananggol Laban sa […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — US Ambassador Nikki Haley on Monday urged the United Nations Security Council to act following the latest alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, warning the United States was ready to respond. Russia said a US military strike against Syria would have “grave repercussions” and stressed that the use of chlorine or sarin had not been confirmed in the attack Saturday in Douma. “We have reached the moment when the […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines has formally notified the International Criminal Court of its decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court. In a Twitter post, Philippine Ambassador to the UN Teddy Locsin Jr. said he delivered the notice to UN Chef De Cabinet Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti. He said the Secretary General, António Guterres, was “abroad.” In the notice dated March 15, 2018, the Philippines said the decision to withdraw was the country’s “principled stand against those […]
Cites “baseless, unprecedented, outrageous attacks” on his person, administration as reasons for withdrawal from treaty that establishes the ICC (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has declared the Philippines’ withdrawal of its ratification of the Rome Statute. In declaring the country’s withdrawal from the treaty that established the International Criminal Court, Duterte in a statement on Wednesday cited the “baseless, unprecedented and outrageous attacks on my person as against my administration, engineered by the officials […]
Says UN rapporteurs should be “impartial, neutral, willing to investigate,” though (Eagle News) — The Palace on Monday said it would still welcome a United Nations inquiry into the government’s war on drugs despite a pronouncement of the UN human rights chief against President Rodrigo Duterte. Roque said, however, that the UN special rapporteurs who, if ever, will look into the same should be “impartial, neutral, and willing to investigate rather than (already have) conclusions and […]
