“Unjustified external interference has very rarely, if at all, served the cause of human rights,” Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin C. Remulla declared before the 52nd Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland
“Unjustified external interference has very rarely, if at all, served the cause of human rights,” Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin C. Remulla declared before the 52nd Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.
He pointed out that the Philippines has to “draw the line -- as any sovereign state must -- when an international institution overreaches and departs from the boundaries of its creation.” “On this context, the Philippine government rejects the ICC’s decision to resume investigations over alleged crimes committed during the anti-illegal drugs campaign,” he stressed.
“We are doubling our efforts to ensure that individuals that breach the bounds of law, state actors included, meet justice. Let me make clear extrajudicial killing has never been and will never be a state policy,” he said.
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