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The Turkish parliament has unanimously approved the establishment of a commission to investigate child murders and abuse with cross-party support.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte taunted the head of the  Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Sept. 16, asking if he was a paedophile because of his focus on the killing of teenagers in the government's bloody war on drugs.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's critics and allies in the Senate vowed on Sept. 13 to block a lower house move to slash the annual budget of a public-funded human rights agency opposed to his bloody war on drugs to just $20.

Gone are the days when there were only two genders, male and female. Now there are 31 — at least there are in New York City, where it is illegal to discriminate against anyone on account of their sex — male, female or “something else entirely.”

After Macedonia held a constituent session of the new parliament on Saturday without opposition MPs, legislators from the ruling coalition are mulling how to fill key parliamentary bodies that require opposition MPs' presence.