The ecumenical group “One Faith. One Nation. One Voice" said President Duterte must face accountability for the widespread killings under his anti-drug crackdown. “We at One Voice cry out for justice for the victims of the Duterte regime,” CBCP News quoted the group's statement. “We demand...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima said the Duterte administration’s admission that suspected drug lord Peter Lim has escaped is enough proof of the duplicity of the President’s drug war. De Lima said the government’s war on drugs is bloody and harsh on drug suspects who are poor but is never...
The Internal Affairs Service (IAS) is now investigating the death of a suspected drug pusher who was shot dead after a buy-bust in Iloilo City on Tuesday night, June 29. IAS Inspector General Alfegar Triambulo said a motu-proprio investigation is now being conducted part of the protocol to probe...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), has vowed to support the United Nation’s program to promote human rights-based approach in combatting terrorism and illegal drugs in the country. The United Nation’s Joint Programme on Human Rights is the first ever...
Families of victims of the bloody war on drugs (WoD) campaign under the Duterte administration will have until August 13, 2021 to submit before the International Criminal Court (ICC) their “representations” following the recent request made by former Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda for authorization...
UNITED NATIONS -- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday expressed his shock at the disregard for children's rights amid war and upheaval. The disregard for children's rights amid war and upheaval "is shocking and heartbreaking," the UN chief told the high-level open debate on...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Monday, June 28, that the preliminary investigation they conducted did not show any proof that the 16-year old suspected drug pusher in Biñan City and another suspected drug dealer who were killed in a police operation on June 16 were executed. But PNP...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered on Monday, June 28, the accounting of all drug cases that were dismissed, especially those which were junked by the prosecutors office or the court over technicalities. “Having data and information on these...
Anti-crime civilians could avail of existing procedures to own and carry guns if they want to help law enforcement agencies in crime fighting as President Duterte had proposed, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Monday, June 28. But if the President wanted to ease the procedures for...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) commemorated its 19th anniversary on Friday, June 25, with a wreath-laying ceremony at its National Headquarters in Quezon City to honor the agency’s fallen comrades. PDEA logo In his speech, PDEA Director-General Wilkins Villanueva recognized the...
A staunch critic of the Duterte government on Wednesday, June 23 assailed the president and his allies for allegedly trying to “blur” the issue on the endorsement of a International Criminal Court probe into the bloody “war on drugs” in the country. Asst. Minority Leader and ACT Teachers...
Senate President Vicente Sotto III has dared investigators from the International Criminal Court (ICC) to go to the Philippines to see for themselves the figures and reports about President Duterte's "war on drugs". Senate President Vicente Sotto III (Senate of the Philippines) Sotto claimed that...
