“At what point has it become all right for our people to stop defending human rights and, instead, start condemning it and its defenders?”This was the question posed by Vice President Leni Robredo before graduates of the Far Eastern University (FEU) Institute of Law during their commencement exercises on Tuesday. In her speech, Robredo lamented that human rights were being considered as an “unnecessary bureaucracy and inconvenience” to ensure safety and security of all. ADVERTISEMENTBut the Vice President asked: “Do we feel safer now?”“Just yesterday, assistant prosecutor Madonna Joy Tanyag from the Office of the Ombudsman was stabbed at a sidewalk at 10:30 in the morning and died. She was five months pregnant,” Robredo noted. “The Philippines has a long history of commitment to the principles of human rights and the rule of law,” she said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 05, 2018 12:00 UTC