{"id":2981,"date":"2019-07-12T11:14:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T02:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/12\/un-launches-comprehensive-review-of-philippine-drug-war"},"modified":"2019-07-12T11:14:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T02:14:04","slug":"un-launches-comprehensive-review-of-philippine-drug-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=2981","title":{"rendered":"UN launches &#8216;comprehensive&#8217; review of Philippine drug war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights commission votes to \u2018get the facts\u2019 on three years of bloodshed claiming an estimated 20,000 lives<\/p>\n<p>The human rights body of the United Nations has agreed to begin investigating President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s violent war on drugs in the Philippines amid accusations of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>A resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights council on Thursday, which passed narrowly by four votes, authorised the United Nations human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, to examine evidence of thousands of deaths at the hands of the police and so called \u201cdeath squads\u201d. She will present her report in a year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/12\/un-launches-comprehensive-review-of-philippine-drug-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights commission votes to \u2018get the facts\u2019 on three years of bloodshed claiming an estimated 20,000 livesThe human rights body of the United Nations has agreed to begin investigating President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s violent war on drugs in the Philipp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines","category-united-nations"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}