{"id":9454,"date":"2024-05-17T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/?p=9454"},"modified":"2024-05-16T11:34:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T10:34:05","slug":"amnesty-international-calls-for-a-clear-end-to-the-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/amnesty-international-calls-for-a-clear-end-to-the-war-on-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty International calls for a clear end to the \u201cwar on drugs\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days after the US State Department published its report<\/a>, Amnesty International presented its annual report<\/a> \u201cThe State of the World’s Human Rights\u201d on April 23, 2024. The report underlined<\/a> that drug-related killings or extrajudicial killings in the context of the so-called \u201cwar on drugs,\u201d especially by the police and other security forces, continue to be a \u201cserious problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office in mid-2022, the Dahas Project of the University of the Philippines documented<\/a> over 600 drug-related killings by May 2024. During the report presentation, Amnesty International appealed<\/a> to the Marcos Jr. government to adopt a \u201cclear and unequivocal policy\u201d to put an end to the \u201cwar on drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Butch Olano, Director of Amnesty International Philippines, also emphasized<\/a> the need for the Philippine government to cooperate with the ICC investigators. On April 15, 2024, President Marcos Jr. reiterated<\/a> that the government would not extradite ex-President Duterte to the ICC and would not recognize an arrest warrant.<\/p>\n

Amnesty International’s key demands include<\/a> the abolition of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) as well as of the Anti-Terrorism Act, the adoption of a law to protect human rights defenders and the provision of adequate support for families of victims of drug-related killings.<\/p>\n

In response to Amnesty International’s demands, the Philippine Department of Justice (DOJ) stated<\/a> that the government is determined to stop drug-related killings and strengthen the justice system by taking \u201call necessary steps\u201d to hold those responsible for human rights violations accountable.<\/p>\n

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Photo \u00a9 Raffy Lerma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days after the US State Department published its report, Amnesty International presented its annual report \u201cThe State of the World’s Human Rights\u201d on April 23, 2024. The report underlined that drug-related killings or extrajudicial killings in the context of the so-called \u201cwar on drugs,\u201d especially by the police and other security forces, continue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64,61,63,58,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-on-drugs-en","category-freedom-of-press","category-human-rights-defenders","category-human-rights-news","category-international-institutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9487,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9454\/revisions\/9487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}