Church, Rights Groups Petition UN Human Rights Council to Urge Aquino to Solve Killings of Activists
Church, Rights Groups Petition UN Human Rights Council to Urge Aquino to Solve Killings of Activists
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Bulatlat.com
MANILA — As Congress proclaimed Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III as the next Philippine president, human rights defenders called on the United Nations to urge Aquino to fulfill his campaign promise to promote human rights.
“We urge this Council to help us make the President-elect stand by his campaign promise,” Rev. Rex Reyes, head of the Ecumenical Voice for Peace and Human Rights, told the United Nations Human Rights Council during his oral intervention June 8 at the council’s 14th session in Geneva, Switzerland.
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