{"id":1724,"date":"2009-08-13T09:17:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T14:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2009-08-13T09:17:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T14:17:16","slug":"philippines-filipina-elected-vp-of-un-rights-council-inquirernet-philippine-news-for-filipinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/13\/philippines-filipina-elected-vp-of-un-rights-council-inquirernet-philippine-news-for-filipinos\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines : Filipina elected VP of UN rights council &#8211; INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m proud of her achievement but this speaks more about the virtues of ms <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Leonardo Quisumbing\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonardo_Quisumbing\">Quisumbing<\/a> rather than our nation. You just have to scann the summary killings illegal arrest and other <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Human rights\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_rights\">human rights violations<\/a> against our nation to understand that this is not a yes vote to the institutions in our country rather it is respect for the virtues of the nominee. Congratulations To Dr. Quisumbing!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MANILA, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Philippines\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=14.5833333333,121.0&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=14.5833333333,121.0%20%28Philippines%29&amp;t=h\">Philippines<\/a>\u2014Dr. Purificacion <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Valera\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=9.31666666667,-70.6&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=9.31666666667,-70.6%20%28Valera%29&amp;t=h\">Valera<\/a>-Quisumbing, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"President\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President\">presidential<\/a> envoy for Human Rights and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"International humanitarian law\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_humanitarian_law\">Humanitarian Law<\/a>, was unanimously elected as <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Vice president\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vice_president\">Vice President<\/a> of the Advisory Committee for the United Nations Human Rights Council in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Geneva\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=46.2,6.15&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=46.2,6.15%20%28Geneva%29&amp;t=h\">Geneva<\/a> last August 6, the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Foreign minister\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreign_minister\">Department of Foreign Affairs<\/a> said.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnation.inquirer.net\/news\/breakingnews\/view\/20090813-220107\/Filipina-elected-VP-of-UN-rights-council\">Filipina elected VP of UN rights council &#8211; INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/03c5504c-20c8-46ba-a39f-1d8c6467deaf\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m proud of her achievement but this speaks more about the virtues of ms Quisumbing rather than our nation. You just have to scann the summary killings illegal arrest and other human rights violations against our nation to understand that this is not a yes vote to the institutions in our country rather it is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/13\/philippines-filipina-elected-vp-of-un-rights-council-inquirernet-philippine-news-for-filipinos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Philippines : Filipina elected VP of UN rights council &#8211; INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[139,579,617,707,708,742,1100,1128],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines","tag-advocacy-organizations","tag-foreign-minister","tag-geneva","tag-human-rights","tag-human-rights-and-liberties","tag-international-humanitarian-law","tag-philippines","tag-president"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}