Items tagged with philippines
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| 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... |
| '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... |
| “The drug market is thriving” while the Commission on Narcotic Drugs limps along [08.04.2018] | “The drug market is thriving” is one of the key messages in UNODC’s 2017 World Drug Report. This is an important admission from the UN’s lead agency ... |
| 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 ... |
| The war on drugs breeds crafty traffickers [26.03.2018] | Politicians often escalate drug war rhetoric to show voters that they are doing something. But it is rare to ignore generations of lessons as Preside... |
| 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] | T he 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... |
| PH jail congestion rate soars to over 500% amid drug war [16.06.2017] | The Philippines' cramped jails had to accommodate more inmates in 2016 amid the government's crackdown on drugs as well as other issues, resulting in... |
| 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] | W hile Rodrigo Duterte was campaigning to be elected president of the Philippines last year, he said on many occasions that he would arrange, if elec... |
| ASEAN facing ‘massive’ drug menace, says Duterte [30.04.2017] | President Rodrigo Duterte warned Southeast Asian leaders on Saturday they were facing a “massive” illegal drug menace that could destroy their societ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thousands dead: the Philippine president, the death squad allegations and a brutal drugs war [02.04.2017] | “Throw them in the ocean or the quarry. Make it clean. Make sure there are no traces of the bodies.” The words are shocking. That they allegedly came... |
| 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... |
| A rare survivor of a Philippine drug raid takes the police to court [10.02.2017] | As the only known survivor of a so-called buy-bust operation, Mr. Morillo has provided a chilling first-person account that challenges the government... |
| Families of slain Filipinos file Supreme Court challenge to Rodrigo Duterte’s drugs war [26.01.2017] | Families of alleged drugs suspects killed by Philippine police petitioned the Supreme Court on Thursday to force police to disclose evidence linking ... |
| How one innocent man fell in Rodrigo Duterte's drug war in the Philippines [25.01.2017] | The police confirmed this week that the number of Filipinos killed in the crackdown that began when Mr Duterte took office on June 30 has now surpass... |
| Asia is still just saying no to drugs [14.01.2017] | Harsh penalties for drug offences are common across Asia. The sorts of alternatives now favoured in the West, such as diverting addicts to effective ... |
| '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 threatens to kill rights activists if drug problem worsens [29.11.2016] | President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has threatened to kill human rights activists critical of his take-no-prisoner tactic against illegal dr... |
| 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... |
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