Opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Monday slammed Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Teodoro “Teddyboy” Locsin Jr.’s move to question the validity of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) resolution saying his rants “confounds logic and good sense.”
Senator Leila de Lima
“This resolution was not universally adopted. Therefore, its validity is highly questionable. It does not represent the will of the Council, much less that of the developing countries who are always the target of such resolutions,” Locsin said in a speech read on his behalf during the UNHRC’s 41st regular session in Geneva, Switzerland.
“The history of the formulation and recognition of the alienable rights of human beings is a product of the history of the crimes against humanity committed in the past by the colonizers against the colonized. This is the historical basis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ,” she said. “He only has to remember the Marcos dictatorship and martial law that he proudly reminds everybody he fought and struggled against,” she said.
“What he is actually telling the West and those who voted for the UNHRC Resolution is this: ‘You had your own human rights violations perpetrated in the past by your own countries, we, therefore, reserve our right to commit the same human rights violations against our own people’,” she pointed out.
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