{"id":158490,"date":"2018-03-31T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=158490"},"modified":"2018-03-31T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T03:09:00","slug":"un-expert-detached-from-ph-realities-medialdea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/31\/un-expert-detached-from-ph-realities-medialdea\/","title":{"rendered":"UN expert \u2018detached\u2019 from PH realities: Medialdea"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_138726\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138726\" style=\"width: 371px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Salvador_Medialdea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-138726\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Salvador_Medialdea.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo By PCOO EDP - [1], Public Domain)\" width=\"371\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Salvador_Medialdea.jpg 371w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Salvador_Medialdea-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-138726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Salvador Medialdea (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=53529030\">Photo By PCOO EDP, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea on Saturday rejected claims made by United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (IDPs) Victoria Tauli-Corpuz that the government has become \u201cauthoritarian\u201d under the Duterte administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe remarks of UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz show how detached she is with the realities happening in the Philippines,\u201d Medialdea said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He said democracy is \u201cvibrant\u201d in the country since all government branches continue to function.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cDemocracy in the Philippines is vibrant and strong. All the branches of the government are functioning and the rule of law thrives,\u201d Medialdea said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He noted that the executive branch does not meddle with the affairs of the legislative and judicial branches, and that it \u201crespects the separation of powers and the independence of the other co-equal branches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Speaking at the Human Rights Festival in Milan on March 25, Tauli-Corpuz claimed that the Duterte administration \u201chas become very authoritarian\u201d by filing an impeachment case against Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno and having imprisoned one of its staunchest critics, Senator Leila de Lima.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The special rapporteur also appealed to Italian human rights groups to help \u201cstop the fascism\u201d in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tauli-Corpuz was earlier tagged by the government as \u201cterrorist\u201d for being a member of the Communist Party of the Philippines\u2019 (CPP) Ilocos-Cordillera Regional Committee (ICRC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She is on the list of 600 members of the CPP-New People\u2019s Army (NPA) that the Department of Justice wanted the court to declare as terrorists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque earlier assured that the tag was not a witch hunt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea on Saturday rejected claims made by United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Rights of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":138726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[21569,37696],"class_list":["post-158490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-salvador-medialdea","tag-victoria-tauli-corpuz","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158490","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=158490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}