21. June 2024 | "War on Drugs", Aktuelles, Human Rights News
The Philippine Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on May 9, 2024, that it is preparing a legal brief analyzing various legal options for the issuance of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC). This initiative came against the backdrop of former...
17. May 2024 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, International Institutions
The US Department of State’s report on the human rights situation in the Philippines in 2023, published on April 22, 2024, found that human rights violations continued to occur under the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Furthermore, the annual...
17. May 2024 | "War on Drugs", Freedom of Press, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, International Institutions
A few days after the US State Department published its report, Amnesty International presented its annual report “The State of the World’s Human Rights” on April 23, 2024. The report underlined that drug-related killings or extrajudicial killings in the context...
26. April 2024 | "War on Drugs", Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, International Institutions
In a speech on March 18, 2024, President Marcos emphasized the alleged progress of his human rights policy, as the number of cases of crimes and human rights violations should have decreased under his administration. He mentioned that the number of index crimes had...
26. April 2024 | "War on Drugs", AMP in the press, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
Sebastian “Baste” Duterte, mayor of Davao City, announced a so-called “war on drugs” for his city on March 22, 2024, and warned that drug suspects would be killed if they did not stop dealing drugs or leave the city. Two days after the...
19. March 2024 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News
On February 27, 2024, a Philippine court sentenced police officer Gerry Maliban to four years in prison for the murder of 17-year-old Jerhode “Jemboy” Baltazar during a police operation on August 2, 2023, in Navotas in Metro Manila. Instead of receiving a...
