Opposition leaders asked new Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to restore the country’s membership in the International Criminal Court to strengthen defence against human rights abuses.
Former president Rodrigo Duterte, whose six-year term ended on Thursday, withdrew the country’s ratification of the Rome Statute, the treaty which created the ICC, in 2019 after The Hague-based court launched a preliminary examination into thousands of killings during his campaign against illegal drugs.
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