Vice President Leni Robredo has promised families of extrajudicial killings (EJK) that she and her office will help them in every way they can as she attended the blessing and turnover of the cremated remains of some of the victims. Vice President Leni Robredo attends the blessing and turnover of...
United States Senate Majority Whip Richard “Dick” Durbin (D-IL) on Thursday (Wednesday in Washington, D.C.) told Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. that the US recognizes the importance of its security cooperation with the Philippines but “not at the exclusion of the country’s...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Thursday said it is high time that President Duterte faces the International Criminal Court (ICC) and respond to the charges against him regarding his “brutal war on drugs.” Hontiveros made the call after the Pre-Trial Chamber 1 of the ICC has approved the start of...
The Philippines has been ranked as the top country in Asia with the highest number of documented killings of land defenders, a recent report from an international human rights organization showed. London-based Global Witness said in its September 2021 report that the Philippines is also among the...
Three archbishops from Northern Luzon on Saturday, Sept. 11, reminded Filipinos of their moral duty to resist the culture of murder and plunder. Archbishop Marlo Peralta, left, Archbishop Socrates Villegas, center, and Archbishop Ricardo Baccay (Photos from CBCP) In a pastoral message signed by...
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque has dismissed as more of "victims' opinion" the Public Redacted Registry Report of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which indicated that victims “overwhelmingly support” a probe into the alleged crimes committed under President Duterte’s bloody war...
From defending President Duterte's war on drugs, former House speaker Pantaleon Alvarez now admits that "too many" people, mostly poor Filipinos, have died in the controversial anti-illegal drug campaign. President Duterte shares a light moment with former House Speaker Pantalon Alvarez during the...
A new wave of bloodbath looms if the communist rebels refuse to surrender and instead continue to kill government forces. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers a public address on August 2, 2021. (Malacañang) President Duterte has warned the government troops would shoot dead armed communist...
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday, July 28, urged President Duterte to end state-sanctioned killings and uphold its international human rights obligations. (Photo from Human Rights Watch) HRW Senior Researcher Carlos H. Conde called out Duterte for "touting his accomplishments in the brutal...
Former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV is giving President Duterte a “flat zero” rating in his five years in office “because he killed his people.” Former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV (Tindig Pilipinas/ Facebook) Saying that he needs to be “very objective” on grading the Chief Executive,...
A spokesman for the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) praised what he describes as a "tremendous success" of the drug war launched by President Duterte since July 2016. “Yung kritiko they focus on the EJK (extra judicial killings). Ang narrative nila ipakita na it has been a...
President Duterte’s primary legacy is the thousands of killings that happened during his term, former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV said as the administration prepares for the last stretch before his final State of the Nation Address (SONA) next week. President Rodrigo Duterte and former Senator...
