EU Member States Should Act on Philippines Abuses

Click to expand Image Veiled protesters, mostly relatives of victims of alleged extra-judicial killings, display placards during a protest outside the Philippine military and police camps in Quezon City, Philippines on Wednesday, July 17, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Bullit Marquez Last year, European Union member states at the United Nations Human Rights Council voted decisively in support of a resolution mandating the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to report on grave rights abuses in the Philippines. The report, presented in June, documented “widespread and systematic” extrajudicial…

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