MANILA, March 9 (Reuters): Hundreds of mostly women demonstrators rallied in the Philippine capital on Monday (March 8) to mark International Women's Day, and took aim at the country's president Rodrigo Duterte for alleged rights abuses against women.
Protesters smashed an effigy of Duterte with sledgehammers during a demonstration near his residence in Manila during which women’s activists denounced him for what they called abusive security policies.
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