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Duterte’s allies have been pushing to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to nine.
A law proposing children as young as nine be jailed for crimes is “wrong from every angle”, the head of the United Nations children’s agency in the Philippines has warned.
“If they grow up, (…)
President Rodrigo Duterte to issue executive order for military support for his war on drugs
The former city mayor says the police and the justice ministry-run National Bureau of Investigation cannot be relied upon and has promised ’a cleansing, a purge’.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (…)
Philippine Constitution, UN rights declaration say suspects and criminals actually also human.
MANILA, Philippines — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Wednesday dismissed concerns raised by an international human rights watchdog that drug-related killings in the country may constitute (…)
Acting on instructions from the very top of government, the Philippines police have killed and paid others to kill thousands of alleged drug offenders in a wave of extrajudicial executions that may amount to crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said in a report published today. (…)
Just last month he had expressed fear over threats to his life due to his outspoken opposition to mining activities in the region.
In an era where standing up to corporations often warrants a death sentence, the latest casualty in the fight for Indigenous and environmental rights is (…)
Foreign governments are keeping noticeably quiet as the Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is leading one of the world’s bloodiest anti-drug campaigns.
Even the most adamant supporters of the war on drugs agree that it is failing. At a major UN summit on drug policy earlier this year, many (…)
Controversial leader – who has endorsed extrajudicial executions of drug offenders – says he killed to show police officers ‘if I can do it, why can’t you?’
Rodrigo Duterte has announced he personally killed suspected criminals when he was mayor of his home city of Davao in the Philippines, (…)
The criticism of the Commission on Human Rights for being an alleged ’shield of criminals’ mirrors failure to appreciate that it also protects a broad range of human rights, including the right to education, food, and life
MANILA, Philippines – The concept of human rights is not appreciated (…)
CAMPAIGN ADVISORY
In response to President Rodrigo Duterte’s blatant attack on human rights, continuing and rampant killings, railroading of death bills (bills to restore death penalty and lowering of the age of criminal liability), ordering the Marcos Burial in LNMB, sexist attack on women, (…)
DEFEND THE RIGHT TO LIFE, RESIST THE RETURN OF AUTHORITARIAN RULE
On Monday this week President Duterte threatened to kill human rights defenders criticizing his war on drugs. And so it is revealed. The main program of the President for this country is to kill. Kill suspected drug peddlers (…)
Human rights advocates, beware. You might just be next in “The Punisher’s” crosshairs.
President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to kill human rights activists critical of his take-no-prisoner tactic against illegal drugs, which has claimed the lives of some 5,000 people allegedly involved in (…)
Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte wants to be seen as a hardliner in the ‘war on drugs’. But in reality, he risks being seen as a cold-blooded killer with genocidal tendencies.
A fan of mass murder?
Duterte has always been a controversial politician. But he recently caused outrage by (…)
Statement endorsed and supported by 36 organizations during the second Mindanao Human Rights Conference which was organized by the Alliance of Tri-people for the Advancement of Human Rights (ALTAHR) together with the Tri-people Organization against Disaster (TRIPOD) Foundation, Kaagapay OFW (…)
Exclusive: Thousands of people have been killed since Rodrigo Duterte became president and, according to one officer, secret police teams are partly responsible.
“We are not that bad policemen or bad individuals. We are just a tool, we are just angels that God gave talent to, you know, to get (…)
A series in six parts by ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group, with many photos by Jonathan Cellona, from ABS-CBN News Digital Media, which are not reproduced below. We reproduce it here for the quality of information it offers, but it’s worth looking at the original version for the quality (…)
‘If Germany had Hitler, the Philippines would have ...,’ the president said, pointing to himself
Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines president, appears to have compared himself to Hitler, saying he would be “happy to slaughter” millions of drug addicts in his bloody war on crime.
During a (…)
Local and international human rights groups have been alarmed by what they believe is Duterte’s blatant disregard for human rights, as the death toll in his administration’s war on drugs continues to rise by the day.
But Duterte remains unfazed by the criticisms.
“Huwag kayong makinig dyan (…)
We, the undersigned, issue this statement in the name of Indonesian Social Movement to strongly condemn the violence in the Philippines that killed eight labor and farmer activists: Mr. Edilberto Miralles, Ms. Emerenciana Mercado-de la Cruz, Ms. Violeta Mercado-de Leon, Mr. Eligio Barbado, Mr. (…)
SENTRO condemns 7th labor killing this September, result of culture of violence
It is another sad day for human rights.
Edilberto Miralles, former union president of R&E Taxi, was gunned down in front of the National Labor Relations Commission this morning. Initial information suggests (…)
Sharing this statement of iDEFEND on the occasion of the International Day of Peace, and the 44th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law in the Philippines.
In Defense of Human Rights and Dignity Movement (iDEFEND) is a growing broad coalition of non-government organizations (NGOs), (…)
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