{"id":5258,"date":"2018-10-26T04:39:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T17:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5258"},"modified":"2018-10-26T04:39:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T17:39:20","slug":"ph-membership-in-icc-not-sole-discretion-of-president-du30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5258","title":{"rendered":"PH membership in ICC not sole discretion of President DU30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why is President Duterte  afraid of the International Criminal Court (ICC)?<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Vice President Leni Robredo asked this question as she maintained that the withdrawal of the Philippines from the Rome Statute, the international treaty which created the ICC, does not rest solely on Duterte\u2019s decision as he had insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Robredo, a lawyer, pointed out that the country\u2019s membership in the ICC was not decided by the President alone \u201cso it\u2019s also not his sole discretion to withdraw\u201d from the international tribunal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur membership in the ICC is not the sole discretion of the President,\u201d Robredo said after defending her office\u2019s P549 million proposed budget for 2019 at the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyway, why are we afraid to belong to the ICC? Isn\u2019t it an assurance that as we try to put an end to human rights violations, several countries will be cooperating with us?\u201d she added. \u201cThat\u2019s the real reason why we joined that group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Opposition senators had challenged before the Supreme Court Duterte\u2019s order for the Philippines to leave the ICC without congressional concurrence, claiming it was an arrogation of the legislative body\u2019s authority.<\/p>\n<p>The President arbitrarily pulled the country out of the ICC after the international tribunal\u2019s chief, Fatou Bensouda, disclosed that they were conducting a preliminary examination on the complaint filed against Mr. Duterte by lawyer Jude Sabio. (SOURCE: INQ.NET) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is President Duterte afraid of the International Criminal Court (ICC)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,49,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5259,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions\/5259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}