Philippines says U.N. rights council seat vindicates its policies

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Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS OCTOBER 13, 2018 / 11:22 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

Philippines says U.N. rights council seat vindicates its policies

MANILA (Reuters) - Granting the Philippines a fresh three-year term on the U.N. Human Rights Council has vindicated President Rodrigo Duterte and shown his detractors to be “morally corrupt”, its foreign minister said on Saturday.

Human rights activists say Duterte’s crackdown on drugs after taking office in June 2016 - since when the police have killed more than 4,800 people - made his government unfit for a seat at the body.

But the Philippines was re-elected to the 47-seat council by secret ballot at the U.N. General Assembly on Friday.

“We are really greatly honored as this is a vindication that fake news and baseless accusations have no place in modern-day human rights discussions,” Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said in a statement.

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1. That is why the UN Human Rights Council is a joke.

It seats some of the worlds worst human rights abusers.