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Journalist groups express concern for the safety of media workers covering the work of President Duterte’s government.
Duterte has previously cursed journalists for their coverage of the ’war on drugs’ [EPA] Manila, Philippines - International and local journalists’ groups have strongly (…)
Philippine leader says there are too many people involved in the narcotics trade and he needs more time to deal with them.
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Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to extend drug war as ’cannot kill them all’
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has asked for a six-month (…)
Alessandro Tinonga reports on a murderous crackdown on drug sellers and users in the Philippines that has left thousands dead at the hands of police and vigilantes.
NEARLY 2,000 people have been murdered in the Philippines under newly elected President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs.” (…)
The new president of the Philippines is behind an anti-drug campaign that has claimed nearly 2,500 lives. And he’s just getting started.
Since Rodrigo Duterte assumed the presidency of the Philippines eight weeks ago, the same scene has unfolded night after night in the slum neighborhoods of (…)
As many as 1,900 people—or about 36 per day—have been killed in the seven weeks since the tough-talking Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte took office , promising a crackdown on drugs , the country’s national police chief said Tuesday.
Director-General Ronald dela Rosa told a Senate hearing (…)
Last night, amidst the torrential rains, FDC joined iDefend for the Candle Lighting activity for the 1,000 victims of killings related to illegal drug use. President Duterte is only on his 95th day as Philippine President. To date, 1,000 were killed in relation to the anti- drug campaign of (…)
Focus on the Global South-Philippines is a member organization of iDefend, a broad coalition of human rights defenders in the Philippines launched last August 12 amidst the increasing number of extrajudicial killings & rampant violation of human rights under President Duterte’s war on (…)
More than 30 non-governmental organizations of human rights defenders joined hands to form today a new coalition called In Defense of Human Rights and Dignity Movement or iDefend.
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Don’t make the war on drugs a war on human rights, new HR group told President Duterte
August (…)
PHILIPPINES: Human rights defender killed in Bataan due to her resistance to open coal storage
August 10, 2016
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION - URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-100-2016
10 August 2016
PHILIPPINES: Human rights defender killed in Bataan due to her (…)
President Rodrigo Duterte is exploiting the rivalry of China and the US to wage a ‘war on drugs’ that is cover for a tide of extrajudicial killings.
More than a thousand Filipinos have reportedly been murdered or disappeared as a result of President’s Duterte’s war on drugs – in little more (…)
At least 704 people have been killed since Duterte came to power, according to data from the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group.
Since coming to power in May, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs” has claimed several hundred lives and forced drug users to publicly (…)
There is no question today about the rampant character of the drug menace in our country. The public perception that the problem has far exceeded the capacity of normal law enforcement has no doubt greatly contributed to the election of Rodrigo Duterte to the presidency. The tough-talking former (…)
PRESIDENT DUTERTE’S war on crime has spawned a nuclear explosion of violence that is spiraling out of control and creating a nation without judges, without law, and without reason.
Do we really want to give the man with the gun the power to judge who are criminals and to kill them?
To decide (…)
The Philippines’ new President Rodrigo Duterte must fulfil his inauguration pledge to uphold the country’s commitment to international law and lead a break with the country’s poor human rights record, Amnesty International said today.
“President Duterte has been elected on a mandate to uphold (…)
An Open Letter to President-Elect Rodrigo Duterte
3 June 2016
Dear President-elect Duterte,
That was quite a mouthful you unleashed on media Thursday night. We do appreciate your reminder that, yes, we journalists are not a uniformly lily-white breed, in fact none of us are, although we (…)
The foul-mouthed politician launches a series of post-election tirades against criminals and repeats his vows to kill them – particularly drug traffickers, rapists and murderers.
DAVAO, Philippines – Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday, May 31, that corrupt journalists (…)
DAVAO, Philippines — On May 14, five days after voters chose Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte as their next president, two masked gunmen cruised the southern city’s suburbs on a motorbike, looking for their kill.
Gil Gabrillo, 47, a drug user, was returning from a cockfight when the gunmen (…)
The Free Legal Assistance Group says the proposals of President-elect Rodrigo Duterte are ’illegal and unconstitutional,’ and would ’render our legal system impotent and meaningless’
MANILA, Philippines – The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) expressed its alarm over the plans of (…)
I RECENTLY received a consolidated report of the killings perpetrated by the Davao Death Squad (DDS) since 1998 up to the end of 2015. The source will not be mentioned for obvious reasons. Suffice it to say that since the killings started, they have been monitoring these cases. I know them very (…)
We, the seventy-six (76) participants from the different provinces of Mindanao representing the fifty-two (52) grassroots organizations of Lumad, Bangsamoro and Migrant Settlers, actively advocating and working for the advancement and protection of human rights convened during the Mindanao (…)
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