Gov't pursues rights-based approach vs drugs, terrorism

A Human Rights Coordinating Council will be created to sustain current initiatives under the United Nations Joint Program on Human Rights (UNJP) that the country entered into with the UN to promote a human rights-based approach to drug control and counterterrorism.

- PIA LEE-BRAGO

The Philippine mission in Geneva said Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin represented the Philippines and presented the government's three pledges aimed at strengthening human rights and accountability mechanisms and the rule of law in the country, during the pledging session of the UN Human Rights 75 High-Level Event commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in Geneva, Switzerland last week.

Bersamin reaffirmed the Philippines' commitment to the principles and ideals embodied in the UDHR.