 Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup with People's Dispatch where we bring you some of the top stories from across the globe. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Report finds Filipino law enforcement did not follow protocol in anti-drug operations. Demands for justice echo across Argentina amid growing cases of femicide. UNHRC report reveals continued denial of justice to victims of Sri Lankan civil war. Millions of workers lead general strike to demand economic policy overhaul in South Africa. How the drug operations launched by the Philippines police did not comply with standard protocols. Justice Secretary Minardo Gavira presented these findings during the UNHRC meeting on February 24. An interdepartment investigation has shown that law enforcement officers did not follow standard protocols for the processing of crime scenes and cooperation with other agencies. The findings are based on over 5,000 case files in major provinces from where anti-drug operations were carried out. Suspects in all these cases were killed for supposedly resisting arrest or drawing a weapon and fighting back during official raids and anti-drug operations. However, Gavira stated that no verification or examination of the recovered weapon was ever conducted. This report comes months after a report by the ICC which found reasonable basis to believe that the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte had committed crimes against humanity. The report found that the government had sanctioned extrajudicial killings of suspected drug users as part of its so-called war on drugs campaign. According to government-reported figures, 5,810 people had died in official raids and drug-related operations by September 2020. However, extrajudicial killings by security forces, vigilantes, and militias pushed the death toll much higher. The Philippines Commission on Human Rights stated in 2018 that an estimated 27,000 people had died in drug war killings. Activists across Argentina are demanding an end to gender-based violence as the country witnesses growing cases of femicide. 21-year-old Guadalupe Gourwal was murdered in the Necwin province on February 23. She was fatally stabbed at night on the busy street reportedly by her former partner. Her family has also stated that she had piled at least one complaint against him before her death. Gourwal's death occurred two weeks after the femicide of 18-year-old Ursula Bahio in Buenos Aires on February 8. Bahio was fatally stabbed at least 15 times by her former boyfriend and police officer Matias Martínez. As reported by the Buenos Aires Times, Bahio had piled 16 reports of gender violence against him. She had also obtained a restraining order against him, however, this was never enforced. Martínez was later officially charged with femicide with aggravated factors of premediation and cruelty. Days after Bahio's death, Argentinian feminists led a march to the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires on February 11. As more reports of femicides were circulated, thousands also gathered in front of the Argentinian Supreme Court last week to demand justice for victims. The observatory of gender violence is reported that 289 femicides occurred across Argentina in 2020. As reported by Telysour, 65.6 percent of these crimes were committed by current or former partners of the victims. Domestic initiatives have repeatedly failed to ensure justice to the victims of the civil war in Sri Lanka. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet stated this while introducing her report to the UN Human Rights Council on February 24. She further stated that successive governments had failed to promote reconciliation and pursue genuine accountability processes. Bachelet further highlighted the restrictions placed on the freedom of the press and civil society spaces. She argued that the growing militarization of key civilian functions had encroached democratic governance in Sri Lanka. The autonomy of key state institutions, including the judiciary, has also been eroded. Bachelet's report on the rights status in the country also emphasised the growing discrimination and persecution of Muslim and Tamil minorities in Sri Lanka. She pointed to the increased pain and distress caused to the Muslim community because of the forced cremations of people who had died due to COVID-19. The war in Sri Lanka led to deaths of over 100,000 people with almost half of these being civilian deaths. Numerous allegations of atrocities and war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan armed forces were also reported during this time. A recent UNHRC report has also accused the current government of trying to sabotage efforts to put those guilty of human rights violations on trial. Bachelet has called for international sanctions against military officers, accused of war crimes as well as an ICC investigation into the war. For a final story of the day, we go to South Africa where millions of workers at a country-wide general strike on February 24th, the call to strike had been issued by the South Africa Federation of Trade Unions or SAF2 to protest against the worsening economic crisis facing the working class. Here is a video feature on the general strike. The demonstration today is simply nothing but to actually outline the cries of the workers so that it could be perceived by the sitting and minister of finance as it delivers its budget speech today. It's concerning that today we're going to be hearing a budget speech which will now start allocating funds. What are they allocating those funds based on when we have actually tabled our problems as the workers into the labor court which needs to see to the decision of freezing the wage bill as well as cutting workers. Comrades, this is the day in which we are out as SAF2 in a national stay away at the same time having coordinated some of the bigot to simply highlight that it is the capitalist system that allows arrogant bosses. It is this system that breeds non-compliance. It is the system of capitalism that breeds no respect for workers' rights. We are supporting that noob so the health workers in all health sector must be given PPEs. The frontline workers must be given proper PPEs. What is now called employment and labor. I don't know which employment because there's no employment. This department of labor over time it has become a dumping site of incompetent useless ministers. Workers are not taking silas. We are not taking silas. So we worry about this character that the right thing will be done. Comrades, we want jobs. We want employment. What we will never allow is for those jobs to be at the expense of our lives as Africans and black labor. We must refuse to do that. We want investment but we don't want investment but we must use our brothers and sisters to pay for those investments. We want to urge the Department of Labor to say that government has got a moral responsibility of defending and protecting its citizens. Government has got a moral responsibility to protect its workers in its own country. If government is not going to protect us, who must protect us? We are necessary. There is absolutely no reason to use that kind of force of the financial security that can just go monlessly into the police vehicle. We had just suffered a stroke recently and we asked them to release them. There was absolutely no law that was broken. I was part of that scuffle with the police officers and they attacked us first. They were shown from the beginning. They have not been interested in resolving the stand of peacefully. That has never been their intention. That is all the time we have for this episode of the International Daily Roundup Promotion Stories and Videos. Visit our website, PeopleSysPy.org. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thank you for watching.