Bersamin sees no need for int’l probe on human rights

July 19, 2019

Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin on Friday said he does not see any need for ''international interference'' in the human rights situation in the Philippines, particularly deaths in the government's three-year war on drugs.

"I am a member of the judiciary and what I need to say for now is that we don’t see any need for international interference (in the country’s human rights situation),” Bersamin told reporters Friday on the sidelines of the launching of the Supreme Court's app.

Bersamin shared the view of Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo that the resolution submitted by Iceland last July 4 to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a minority resolution.

The resolution on the Philippines was adopted by the UNHRC in Geneva last week by a vote of 18 countries in favor and 14 against, with 15 abstentions. DMS