{"id":117450,"date":"2017-09-12T22:59:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T02:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=117450"},"modified":"2025-03-07T19:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T00:40:20","slug":"palace-counters-un-high-commissioners-grave-concern-with-deep-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/12\/palace-counters-un-high-commissioners-grave-concern-with-deep-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace counters UN High Commissioner\u2019s \u2018grave concern\u2019 with \u2018deep concern\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89157\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ernesto-Abella-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89157\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ernesto-Abella-3.jpg\" alt=\"Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella. (PCOO photo)\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ernesto-Abella-3.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ernesto-Abella-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ernesto-Abella-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ernesto-Abella-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella. (PCOO photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Malaca\u00f1ang reiterated on Tuesday that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte\u2019s campaign on drugs did not include a shoot-to-kill order against suspects, denouncing the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights\u2019 (UNHCR) speech on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply concerned with the UNHCR Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein\u2019s sweeping statements during the UNHR Council\u2019s 36<sup>th<\/sup> session, citing instances bereft of factual basis. Mr. Al Hussein\u2019s broad references about the supposed policies of the President run counter to what he continues to pronounce,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said.<\/p>\n<p>Abella mentioned that the President has \u2018categorically and repeatedly\u2019 denied the existence of a shoot-to-kill order, furthering that drug killings are all subject to investigations.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy topamax online <a href=\"https:\/\/hiims.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/topamax.html\">https:\/\/hiims.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/topamax.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This was in response to Al-Hussein\u2019s speech on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Philippines, I continue to be gravely concerned by the President\u2019s open support for a shoot-to-kill policy regarding suspects, as well as by the apparent absence of credible investigations into reports of thousands of extrajudicial killings, and the failure to prosecute any perpetrator,\u201d a part of the High Commissioner\u2019s opening said.<\/p>\n<p>Abella stood firm with the President\u2019s words saying, \u201cThe objective of the President\u2019s campaign against illegal drugs is to preserve the lives of the Filipino people, to prevent the destruction of Filipino families, and to protect the Philippines from becoming a narco-state.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cipro online <a href=\"https:\/\/hiims.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/cipro.html\">https:\/\/hiims.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/cipro.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Al Hussein also noted Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II describing Kian de los Santos\u2019 slay case as an \u2018isolated case.\u2019 \u201cHowever, suspicion of extrajudicial killings has now become so widespread that the initials E.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy lipitor online <a href=\"https:\/\/hiims.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/lipitor.html\">https:\/\/hiims.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/lipitor.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>J.K. (Extra Judicial Killings) have reportedly become a verb in some communities \u2013 as in \u2018he was EJK-ed,\u201d the Commissioner added.<\/p>\n<p>He furthered that he was \u2018appalled\u2019 by the President\u2019s \u2018lack of respect for due process rights of all Filipinos,\u2019 and he was \u2018horrified\u2019 by the latter\u2019s comment on bombing Lumad schools.<\/p>\n<p>The UNHRC is 47-member-state inter-governmental body responsible in promoting and protecting all human rights worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaca\u00f1ang reiterated on Tuesday that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte\u2019s campaign on drugs did not include a shoot-to-kill order against suspects, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":89157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[23697,17006,14166,3232,23696,978,18165,23695,12898,12977],"class_list":["post-117450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-campaign-on-drugs","tag-ejk","tag-ernesto-abella","tag-human-rights","tag-kian-de-los-santos","tag-malacanang","tag-president-rodrigo-roa-duterte","tag-united-nations-high-commissioner-for-human-rights","tag-vitaliano-aguirre-ii","tag-zeid-raad-al-hussein","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287650,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117450\/revisions\/287650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}