The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Wednesday issued a resolution after finding incoming President Rodrigo Duterte discriminated against women in violation of Republic Act 9710 or the Magna Carta of Women in connection with his “joke” about an Australian rape-slay victim.

“The CHR, in the dispositive part of the resolution, found the words and actions of Mayor Duterte to be discriminatory of women that is enjoined by the Magna Carta of Women,” the CHR said in a statement.

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