GENEVA: Countries across the world put the Philippines on notice over its deadly drug war on Monday, demanding an end to extrajudicial killings by President Rodrigo Duterte’s security services. The Philippines was facing its regular review at the Geneva-based UN human rights council, where each country’s record is scrutinized every four years. Monday’s session was especially “critical because of the sheer magnitude of the human rights calamity” since Duterte’s inauguration, Human Rights Watch said in a statement. Canada called on Manila to “end extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, illegal arrests and detention, torture and harassment.”Delegations from Australia, Brazil, France, Germany and Ghana, among others, made identical calls. In fact, President Duterte has a policy of zero tolerance for abuse by law enforcers,” the senator said in his opening statement.

Source: Manila Times May 08, 2017 11:48 UTC