MANILA, Philippines --- Senator Richard Gordon said Wednesday that the Philippines should not withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), after 18 of its 47 member-states voted in favor of a resolution seeking an investigation into the human rights situation in the country. "I don't think we should withdraw. I think it's right that we should stay there," he said in an interview with ABS-CBN News Channel. Gordon said instead of pulling out from the international body, the country should instead "accept the findings" of the council but show the government's own statistics on human rights, including drug war deaths, and vow to take acti...
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