Sep 21, 2019 | Top Stories
Malacañang has ordered all departments and agencies to stop negotiations for all loans and grants from countries that voted in favor of a resolution, introduced by Iceland before the United Nations Human Rights Council in July, to issue a full report on the Philippines’s human rights situation.
Jul 17, 2019 | Top Stories
President Duterte was reacting to last week’s vote of the UN Human Rights Council that approved a resolution, introduced by Ireland, to investigate extrajudicial killings in his bloody war on drugs.
Jul 16, 2019 | In the trenches, Top Stories
Rather than behave like a pariah state, the Philippines must take responsibility and act as an honorable member of the community of nations, writes our editor-at-large, Manuel Mogato
Jul 16, 2019 | Top Stories
Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. got immediate support from Senate President Vicente Sotto III, who tweeted: ‘If he says we stay, we stay!’
Jul 15, 2019 | Top Stories
‘Evidently, the resolution was designed to embarrass the Philippines before the international community and the global audience,’ Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo said.