Cure for misogyny: Members of a women’s rights group defacing an image of Duterte during a protest near the presidential palace in Manila. — AFP
HUNDREDS of mostly women demonstrators rallied in the Philippine capital 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 on Monday near his residence in Manila, during which women’s activists denounced him for what they called abusive security policies.
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