Philippines: Duterte Threatens Human Rights Community

Expand Activists hold placards as they protest against what they say are drug-related extrajudicial killings, during the International Human Rights Day in Manila, Philippines December 10, 2016. © 2016 Ezra Acayan / Reuters (New York) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's call for police to shoot human rights activists who are "obstructing justice" places all members of the country's human rights community in grave danger, Human Rights Watch said today. On August 16, 2017, Duterte instructed ...