Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana dared on Thursday, July 1, Senator Many Pacquiao to provide details on the alleged corruption in the $300 million acquisition of Philippine Navy frigates. In a statement posted on the Twitter account of the Department of National Defense (DND), Lorenzana denied...
As President Rodrigo Duterte's six-year term is coming to a close, the Council for People's Development (CPDG) is demanding accountability and justice in his final year. President Rodrigo Duterte (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) The group blasted Duterte for his "poor COVID-19 response" which drove the...
Malacañang reiterated that President Duterte's bloody drug war does not only target the poor, pointing out that suspected drug lord Peter Lim has been wanted since 2018. President Duterte meeting businessman and suspected drug lord Peter Lim in Davao City in July 2016. (RTVM Screenshot)...
Senator Leila de Lima on Thursday branded the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) full-blown investigation into the thousands of killings under the Duterte administration’s war on drugs as an “extraordinary remedy” for the Philippines. De Lima said that since the domestic justice system...
June 30, 2016. The day the country welcomed former Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte as its 16th president. Duterte's victory in the 2016 polls came as a surprise to many, being the first local official to be catapulted to the presidency. He anchored his candidacy on making the Philippines a safer...
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...
