Items tagged with extrajudicial killings and philippines
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| PH drug war, rights situation back under global scrutiny [31.03.2022] | The Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) has assailed the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) for noting the “extrajudicial targeting” of persons sus ... |
| ICC suspends PH drug war probe, warned of Duterte ‘ruse’ [21.11.2021] | Human rights lawyers who accused President Rodrigo Duterte of committing crimes against humanity appealed to Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan of the Inter ... |
| International court backs probe into Philippines' 'war on drugs' [15.09.2021] | Judges at the International Criminal Court approved a formal investigation into possible crimes against humanity allegedly committed under the leader ... |
| ‘War on drugs’ blamed for deaths of at least 122 children in Philippines [30.06.2020] | At least 122 children, including a one-year-old, have been killed during President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs” in the Philippines, according to ... |
| Philippines police may have killed tens of thousands with 'near impunity' in drug war – UN [04.06.2020] | Tens of thousands of people may have been killed in the war on drugs since mid-2016 in the Philippines, amid “near impunity” for police and incitemen ... |
| The war on drugs is a war on human rights [15.05.2020] | One of the most appalling aspects of the war on drugs is that it can legitimise not just human rights abuses, but a complete rejection of human right ... |
| Death squad disrupters: Filipina patrols in Pateros help keep drug killings at bay [17.02.2020] | Late each night, a dozen women chat and share a meal before hitting the narrow streets of a Manila suburb where a death squad once roamed. They are t ... |
| 'Shock and awe' has failed in Philippines drug war, enforcement chief says [07.02.2020] | Colonel Romeo Caramat, the head of drug enforcement for the Philippine National Police, said that ultra-violent approach to curbing illicit drugs had ... |
| Bloody Philippine drug war fails to curb methamphetamine supply: VP [06.01.2020] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has only managed to curb the supply of methamphetamines by less than 1% of annual consumption, pr ... |
| Human Rights and drug policy [01.01.2020] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) has always believed in the need to find global answers to global problems, been a strong defender of multilateralis ... |
| Philippines police chief and Duterte drug war enforcer resigns in meth scandal [14.10.2019] | The chief of police in the Philippines has stepped down after facing historical accusations in the Senate that he protected officers who had resold c ... |
| Rodrigo Duterte's drug war is 'large-scale murdering enterprise' says Amnesty [08.07.2019] | The president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte is carrying out a “large-scale murdering enterprise” and should be investigated by the UN for crimes ... |
| INCB stronger than ever before on decriminalisation, capital punishment & extrajudicial killings [28.06.2019] | The INCB dedicated one of its latest series of Alerts, from June 2019, to the issue of ‘State responses to drug-related criminality’, covering decrim ... |
| The real failure of Southeast Asia’s drug wars [18.06.2019] | There may come a day when Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is brought before the International Criminal Court to answer questions about his “war ... |
| Sri Lanka president uses Easter attacks to fuel Duterte-inspired drug war [01.05.2019] | For Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena, the War on Drugs and the War on Terror go hand-in-hand. And the Easter attacks that rocked the capital ... |
| Rodrigo Duterte photographed with suspected Chinese ‘drug lords’, says former narcotics official [25.03.2019] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has faced widespread criticism over his deadly drug crackdown, has been photographed with two Chinese men s ... |
| The campaign for a 'drug-free world' is costing lives [20.03.2019] | Drug control efforts across the world are a threat to human dignity and the right to life. The first problem lies with the founding aspiration of the ... |
| How Duterte’s exaggerations worsened the Philippines’ drug problem [28.02.2019] | We’re nearing the midpoint of the Duterte administration, yet we’re nowhere near solving the Philippines' drug problem. By all accounts, things even ... |
| From the Philippines to Indonesia and Afghanistan, Asia’s brutal drug policies have failed [20.02.2019] | The so-called “war on drugs” has persisted without an honest assessment by governments of its effectiveness, nor its impacts, despite UN reports show ... |
| Rodrigo Duterte: Philippines president suggests deadly war on drug dealers will get even ‘bloodier’ [20.02.2019] | Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte warned his signature anti-narcotics campaign will be even harsher in the future, signalling no let-up in a blood ... |
| Duterte's Philippines drug war death toll rises above 5,000 [19.12.2018] | Derrick Carreon, a spokesman for the Philippine drug enforcement agency (PDEA), said that, according to official figures, between July 2016 and the e ... |
| Time for a truce in Asia’s war on drugs [03.11.2018] | Global attitudes on narcotic drugs are changing, but the shift has come too late for those caught up in Asia’s past decade of misguided and often let ... |
| Taking stock of a decade of failed drug policies [22.10.2018] | Ten years ago, UN member states set themselves a target ‘to eliminate or reduce significantly and measurably’ the illicit cultivation, production, tr ... |
| Duterte confesses: 'My only sin is the extrajudicial killings' [28.09.2018] | President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted for the first time to authorising extrajudicial killings as part of his war on drugs in the Philippines. Duter ... |
| The people left behind by Philippines' brutal war on drugs [14.08.2018] | One year after visiting the Philippines to document the impact of President Rodrigo Duterte’s crackdown on drugs, photographer James Whitlow Delano r ... |
| Philippine police vow 'surgical and chilling' war on drugs, crime [30.07.2018] | Philippine police vowed to revamp and intensify a fight against crime and drugs, a week after President Rodrigo Duterte promised no letup in a bloody ... |
| Duterte vows more bloodshed in Philippine ‘drug war’ [23.07.2018] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed to continue his murderous “war on drugs,” saying “it will be as relentless and chilling as on the day it b ... |
| Philippines' Duterte says no 'justice' for families of drugs war casualties [19.06.2018] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said the families of people killed in his controversial war on drugs will not receive “justice”, rejecting calls ... |
| Pledge to arm Philippine community chiefs sparks 'Wild West' fears [13.06.2018] | The Philippines interior ministry plans to acquire pistols for community leaders willing to fight crime, sparking fears of more lawless bloodshed in ... |
| 'I will arrest you': Duterte threatens ICC lawyer over 'war on drugs' [13.04.2018] | Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to arrest an International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor if she conducts activities in his cou ... |
| Philippine court halts govt move to keep drug war kill records secret [03.04.2018] | The Philippine Supreme Court ordered police to hand over full records of thousands of deadly encounters in the country’s war on drugs, thwarting a go ... |
| Philippines tars rights groups with ‘drug lords’ smear [26.03.2018] | Philippine presidential spokesman Harry Roque alleged that “some human rights groups have become unwitting tools of drug lords to hinder the strides ... |
| Duterte to withdraw Philippines from ICC after 'outrageous attacks' [14.03.2018] | The Philippines said it is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC) due to what President Rodrigo Duterte called “outrageous” attacks ... |
| Rodrigo Duterte tells police not to cooperate in drug war investigation [02.03.2018] | President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the Philippines’ police and soldiers not to cooperate in any investigation into his bloody war on drugs, amid i ... |
| Duterte to Int'l Criminal Court: Drug war continues, case or no case [12.02.2018] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte sought to appear unfazed by the International Criminal Court’s preliminary examination into his drug war, saying ... |
| Philippines says Hague Tribunal will investigate Duterte over drug war [08.02.2018] | The International Criminal Court is opening a preliminary investigation into accusations that President Rodrigo Duterte and other Philippine official ... |
| Philippine police return to war on drugs, cannot promise no bloodshed [29.01.2018] | Police in the Philippines resumed President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, making visits to the homes of users and dealers to convince them to surre ... |
| The War on Drugs in Southeast Asia [29.01.2018] | While the world’s attention has been focused on the carnage of the Philippine Drug War, which has resulted in an estimated 13,000 deaths from anti-na ... |
| Duterte's drug war in 2017: The year of deaths and denials [19.12.2017] | It's been a news cycle of deaths and denials in 2017 in the Philippines. Practically every day TV footages, online posts, and newspaper photos showed ... |
| How a secretive police squad racked up kills in Duterte's drug war [19.12.2017] | Soon after President Rodrigo Duterte launched his war on drugs, a small group of police officers from his hometown Davao arrived in the Philippine ca ... |
| Police have killed dozens of children in Philippines war on drugs, Amnesty says [04.12.2017] | Police have killed dozens of children in the “war on drugs” in the Philippines in the last 18 months, Amnesty International said. The rights group ur ... |
| Asia’s violent anti-drug crackdowns are hurting people, not the drug trade [09.11.2017] | With regional and international heads of state gathering in Manila for the 31st Asean Summit, it seems appropriate to examine whether there are more ... |
| Killings won't solve drug problem, ex-Thai PM Abhisit says [21.10.2017] | Recounting the experience of Thailand, former Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said killing addicts can never solve the drug problem, as long as ... |
| Philippine lawyers ask Supreme Court to halt 'illegal' war on drugs [11.10.2017] | Philippine lawyers filed an injunction with the Supreme Court to try to stop President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs, calling it as an illega ... |
| Is the Philippines violent drug war spreading to Indonesia? [06.10.2017] | The Philippine war on drugs, led by President Rodrigo Duterte, has been eviscerated by human rights advocates due to its reliance on extrajudicial ki ... |
| 'Philippines risks ICC intervention if it snubs human rights recommendations' [02.10.2017] | The Philippines risks international erosion of trust in its institutions and the intervention of the International Criminal Court if it doesn't act o ... |
| IDPC response to the INCB Annual Report for 2016 [30.09.2017] | The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Annual Report for 2016 is, as usual, a mixed bag of high quality data and sometimes doubtful politic ... |
| Philippines tells UN rights body: No extrajudicial killings [23.09.2017] | The Philippine government has denied the existence of extrajudicial killings in the country before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), r ... |
| Third Philippine teen killed, threatening to turn sentiment turns against President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war [06.09.2017] | A 14-year-old boy whose body was found with dozens of stab wounds is the latest atrocity in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, critics ... |
| Philippines’ Duterte admits murderous ‘drug war’ is unwinnable [31.08.2017] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted that his abusive "war on drugs" is unwinnable. Duterte told a gathering of military personnel that ... |
| 'Please stop!' Brutal killing of a student in Philippines drug war sparks nationwide anger [23.08.2017] | The killing of a 17-year-old student in the Philippines has sparked nationwide protest and multiple government investigations, moves which many hope ... |
| Philippine police 'dumping bodies' of drug war victims [28.07.2017] | Fishermen in the Philippines have revealed that they have been dumping bodies of drug suspects, killed as part of the country's so-called war on drug ... |
| Why Jokowi's war on drugs is doing more harm than good [26.07.2017] | Indonesian President Joko Widodo has directed police to shoot suspected drug dealers, citing the need to be "firm" in the face of a national "narcoti ... |
| Rodrigo Duterte pushing Philippines' drugs market to Indonesia, anti-narcotics chief says [26.07.2017] | Indonesia's anti-narcotics chief has declared Indonesia to have the "biggest" illicit drugs market in the world, revealing 72 international drug synd ... |
| Duterte hits drug war critics [24.07.2017] | President Rodrigo Duterte blasted his critics who allegedly turn a blind eye on crimes in the country while supporting "Western experts" who have con ... |
| Joko Widodo: Police should shoot suspected drug dealers [23.07.2017] | President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has instructed police to shoot suspected drug dealers to combat what he considers a narcotics emergency facing Indones ... |
| Filipinos flee Duterte’s violent drug crackdown [04.06.2017] | Every morning before dawn, Rosario Perez checks to make sure her sons are still alive. The three brothers, all in their 20s, sleep at the houses of f ... |
| We have waged war on drugs for a century. So who won? [29.05.2017] | While Rodrigo Duterte was campaigning to be elected president of the Philippines last year, he said on many occasions that he would arrange, if elect ... |
| Charge Rodrigo Duterte with mass murder, lawyer tells The Hague [24.04.2017] | Filipino lawyer Jude Josue Sabio asked the International Criminal Court in The Hague to charge President Rodrigo Duterte and 11 other Philippine offi ... |
| Police describe kill rewards, staged crime scenes in Duterte's drug war [18.04.2017] | The Philippine police have received cash payments for executing drug suspects, planted evidence at crime scenes and carried out most of the killings ... |
| Philippines police plant evidence to justify killings in drug war, says report [02.03.2017] | Human Rights Watch has accused Philippines police of falsifying evidence to justify unlawful killings in the government’s war on drugs that has cause ... |
| The Philippine paradox [22.02.2017] | In the constant, daily laboured birth of the global cannabis industry, there is no greater paradox than the Philippines. On one hand, you have incred ... |
| Ex-Officer in Philippines says he led death squad at Duterte’s behest [20.02.2017] | A retired police officer racked with guilt over the murders of two of his own brothers has reversed himself and confessed to leading the Philippine d ... |
| 'They are slaughtering us like animals' [06.12.2016] | I had come to document the bloody and chaotic campaign against drugs that President Rodrigo Duterte began when he took office on June 30: since then ... |
| Duterte’s war on drugs: bitter lessons from Thailand’s failed campaign [28.09.2016] | The body count from Philippine President Duterte’s “war on drugs” is growing by the day; more than 3,000 casualties leading to broad international co ... |
| Duterte’s fiercest critic booted from committee investigating killings [19.09.2016] | Accused of bias after she allowed a self-confessed hitman to link Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to over a thousand murders, Senator Leila De L ... |
| Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to extend drug war as 'cannot kill them all' [18.09.2016] | Rodrigo Duterte has asked for a six-month extension for his war on drugs, saying there are too many people involved in the narcotics trade and he "ca ... |
| Duterte ready to answer UN queries on drug killings [22.08.2016] | President Duterte dared United Nations (UN) experts to come to the Philippines and face him in a public meeting where he would answer all their quest ... |
| Duterte may face international court for drug deaths, senator says [15.08.2016] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte could face charges for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the spate of killi ... |
| Too near our doorsteps: guns and the war on drugs [02.08.2016] | The spate of killings in the Phillipines has clearly drawn the divide – on the surface, between the rich and poor, but at the core, between those who ... |
| Philippines president promises 'no let up' in brutal anti-drugs crackdown [24.07.2016] | The Philippines leader known as “The Punisher” has defended his government’s brutal crackdown on the drugs trade in his inaugural State of the Nation ... |
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