Human rights violations in the Philippines
The Government shares concern about human rights violations and has conveyed it to the Philippine Government through Ireland’s UN representative; the UN Human Rights Commission is discussing violations.
asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will instruct our Permanent Representative to the United Nations to bring to the attention of the General Assembly the unacceptable level of human rights violations in the Philippines; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Comment on this
The Government are concerned about the level of human rights violations in the Philippines, as they are about such violations in whatever part of the world they occur. That concern has been made known to the Philippine Government by our Permanent Representative at the United Nations.
The next session of the General Assembly of the United Nations will not be taking place until September next. However, the UN Commission on Human Rights, of which Ireland is a member since 1 January this year, is currently meeting in Geneva to discuss human rights violations throughout the world. The situation in the Philippines was one of the matters dealt with by our representative at the Commission in the course of a statement made earlier today.