The Commission of Human Rights (CHR) approved on Wednesday the plan of the Philippine National Police (PNP) to stop presentingcrime suspects to the media.
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US President Donald Trump said he had raised the issue of human rights with Kim Jong Un when he met the North Korean leader earlier Tuesday.
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“At what point has it become alright for our people to stop defending human rights and, instead, start condemning it and its defenders?” This was the question posed by Vice President Leni Robredo before graduates of the Far Eastern University (FEU) Institute of Law during their commencement exercises on Tuesday.
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Concern is growing among Japanese diplomatic officials and others over whether human rights issues, including Pyongyang’s abduction of Japanese nationals, will be discussed in detail at a U.S.-North Korea summit meeting scheduled for June 12 in Singapore.
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Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Chair Chito Gascon has called on people of the world to resist the global trend of “regression” in democratic spaces due to the rising popularity of so-called “strongmen” as leaders.
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