23. January 2023 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
An initiative of the Paghilom Program was able to achieve, with the legal support of the organization IDEALS, Inc., the correction of a forged death certificate of a victim of the so-called “war on drugs” in December 2022. 9-year-old Lenin Baylon died in...
15. December 2022 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
The Philippine Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) officially launched the new government anti-drug program on November 26, 2022. The program, Buhay Ingatan, Droga’y Ayaw (Take care of life, Don’t want drugs), is intended to take a...
15. December 2022 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
After five years, the Regional Trial Court Branch 122 in Caloocan City convicted patrolman Jefrey Perez for torturing 19-year-old Carl Angelo Arnaiz and 14-year-old Reynaldo “Kulot” de Guzman in 2017. Aside from life imprisonment on two occasions, the court ordered on...
20. November 2022 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News, Internal Affairs, International Institutions
The UN Human Right Council (UNHRC) reviewed the Philippines’ compliance with the UN human rights conventions during the 4th cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on November 14, 2022. In the UPR process, UN member states made recommendations on how to...
24. October 2022 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News, Internal Affairs, International Institutions
Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief General Rodolfo Azurin Jr. announced on October 3, 2022, that he intends to copy the strategy of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in combating the country’s illegal drug problem. In...
19. September 2022 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News
On 8 September 2022, the Philippine government announced that it would reject the request of the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to reopen the investigation into the numerous extrajudicial killings (EJKs) in the context of former President...
