Press Release
May 8, 2017

STATEMENT OF SEN. LEILA M. DE LIMA ON PH DELEGATION'S PRESENTATION ON THE ANTI-DRUG POLICY AT THE U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

CUSTODIAL CENTER, Camp Crame, QC - Senator Leila M. de Lima today released the following statement dated 7 May 2017 in reaction to the presentation of the 16-man Philippine delegation led by Senator Alan Peter Cayetano on the Philippine's anti-drugs campaign before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland:

"We can all see the misplaced bravado displayed by the PH delegation to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), as led by Presidential Representative to the Senate Alan Peter Cayetano.

"This early, said delegation is fooling itself that the international delegates to the periodic review are as stupid as the rest of the Malacañang cheering squad in their belief that they can pull off a magic trick and hide the Duterte regime's record of EJKs and human rights abuses from the rest of the world.

"Cayetano's audience this time is not a cyberspace inhabited by paid trolls and a bureaucracy made up of Duterte sycophants, but independent-minded envoys who are perfectly aware of the human rights situation in the Philippines. Cayetano this time cannot simply pull a fast one on these country delegates with a sanitized version of our country's HR situation.

"Good luck to him anyway, and hope he will not be eaten alive in Geneva."

Attachments: Dispatch from Crame No. 80

 

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