14. April 2022 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News, International Institutions
The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) calls on foreign governments to impose Magnitsky sanctions on Philippine officials. Such sanctions allow states to punish individuals who share responsibility for human rights abuses in the...
16. February 2022 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News
The number of deaths in the so-called War on Drugs went up again in 2021 – to a total of 545. On January 4, 2022, Rodrigo Duterte said he would never apologize for the deaths. The International Criminal Court (ICC) temporarily halted the emboldened investigation...
21. December 2021 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) counts a total of 6,215 deaths in the so-called war on drugs between July 2016 and October 2021. However, calculations by human rights organizations as well as the ICC suggest a much higher number of extralegal killings...
21. December 2021 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News, International Institutions
The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on November 18, 2021 that it would temporarily halt the investigation into crimes against humanity – just two months after the investigation began. A request was made through the Philippine Ambassador to the...
23. November 2021 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News
On November 2, 2021, the Philippine Commission on Human Rights (CHR) released the results of investigations into 579 cases in the regions of Metro Manila, Central Luzon, and Calabarzon. These three regions recorded the highest number of extralegal killings in the...
23. November 2021 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News, International Institutions
The 45th session of the UN Human Rights Council approved the first Joint Programme (UN JP) between the Philippines and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR). The collaboration within the three-year program began in July 2021. The UN JP aims to...
