The United Nations and the Philippine government have come to blows over the treatment of human rights investigators, with a UN chief saying the country’s president, Rodrigo Duterte, needs a psychiatric evaluation. The Philippine government angered the UN after one of its human rights investigators was included on a list of 600 people declared to be communist terrorists. Among them was the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, for allegedly being a senior member of the Maoist rebel group. It said the claims violated the UN convention on human rights. Condemning the actions of Duterte’s government, the UN high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, said: “He needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric examination.

Source: The Guardian March 09, 2018 08:04 UTC