{"id":99862,"date":"2017-04-26T02:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T06:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=99862"},"modified":"2017-04-26T02:22:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T06:22:30","slug":"watchdog-says-asean-must-stand-vs-killings-in-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/26\/watchdog-says-asean-must-stand-vs-killings-in-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog says ASEAN must stand vs. killings in Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_99863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99863\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/196841_10150164115178854_7652555_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99863\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/196841_10150164115178854_7652555_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"Amnesty International says leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations must consider whether the killings amount to a serious breach of ASEAN's charter, particularly its pledge to human rights. (Photo: ASEAN\/ Facebook)\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/196841_10150164115178854_7652555_n-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/196841_10150164115178854_7652555_n-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/196841_10150164115178854_7652555_n-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amnesty International says leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations must consider whether the killings amount to a serious breach of ASEAN&#8217;s charter, particularly its pledge to human rights. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aseansecretariat\"> ASEAN\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013An international human rights watchdog is calling on Southeast Asian leaders to take a stand against the Philippines&#8217; war on drugs that has left thousands dead under President Rodrigo Duterte, the host of this week&#8217;s regional summit.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International says leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations must consider whether the killings amount to a serious breach of ASEAN&#8217;s charter, particularly its pledge to human rights.<\/p>\n<p>It says up to 9,000 people have been killed by police or unknown armed persons since July 2016. Officials say not all deaths being reported are drug-related while others were killed in legitimate police operations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013An international human rights watchdog is calling on Southeast Asian leaders to take a stand against the Philippines&#8217; war &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":99863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[595,2082,13135],"class_list":["post-99862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-asean","tag-killings","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}