RP Election to UN Human Rights Council

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Byline: Hern. P. Zenarosa

FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo's report on the election of the Philippines as member of the United Nations Human Rights Council has no doubt reinforced the country's standing over the importuning of certain opposition members to discredit it in the world body.

I remember it was only recently that an opposition member of the Senate shocked her colleagues when she went personally to the UN headquarters in Geneva to denounce the Philippine government for alleged human rights violations.

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The senators, including her team members in the opposition, disowned any Senate authority to make such uncalled for complaint …