Items tagged with extrajudicial killings
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| PH drug war, rights situation back under global scrutiny [31.03.2022] | The Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) has assailed the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) for noting the “extrajudicial targeting” of persons sus ... |
| ICC suspends PH drug war probe, warned of Duterte ‘ruse’ [21.11.2021] | Human rights lawyers who accused President Rodrigo Duterte of committing crimes against humanity appealed to Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan of the Inter ... |
| International court backs probe into Philippines' 'war on drugs' [15.09.2021] | Judges at the International Criminal Court approved a formal investigation into possible crimes against humanity allegedly committed under the leader ... |
| ‘War on drugs’ blamed for deaths of at least 122 children in Philippines [30.06.2020] | At least 122 children, including a one-year-old, have been killed during President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs” in the Philippines, according to ... |
| Philippines police may have killed tens of thousands with 'near impunity' in drug war – UN [04.06.2020] | Tens of thousands of people may have been killed in the war on drugs since mid-2016 in the Philippines, amid “near impunity” for police and incitemen ... |
| 'Instead of doctors, they send police to kill us': locked-down Rio faces deadly raids [18.05.2020] | Police operations and body bags are nothing new to Rio, where state police killed a record 1,810 people last year, nearly five a day. But with the ci ... |
| ‘License to Kill’: Inside Rio’s record year of police killings [18.05.2020] | Officially, the police in Brazil are allowed to use lethal force only to confront an imminent threat. But an analysis of four dozen police killings i ... |
| The war on drugs is a war on human rights [15.05.2020] | One of the most appalling aspects of the war on drugs is that it can legitimise not just human rights abuses, but a complete rejection of human right ... |
| Death squad disrupters: Filipina patrols in Pateros help keep drug killings at bay [17.02.2020] | Late each night, a dozen women chat and share a meal before hitting the narrow streets of a Manila suburb where a death squad once roamed. They are t ... |
| 'Shock and awe' has failed in Philippines drug war, enforcement chief says [07.02.2020] | Colonel Romeo Caramat, the head of drug enforcement for the Philippine National Police, said that ultra-violent approach to curbing illicit drugs had ... |
| Rio violence: Police killings reach record high in 2019 [23.01.2020] | The number of police killings in Rio de Janeiro reached a record high last year, officials say, amid controversial hardline measures to tackle violen ... |
| Colombia will tackle cocaine with a cancer-causing chemical. Only problem is, it won't work [21.01.2020] | The Colombian government has published a proposed law that will allow it to resume a controversial program of aerial fumigation of coca crops using g ... |
| Bloody Philippine drug war fails to curb methamphetamine supply: VP [06.01.2020] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has only managed to curb the supply of methamphetamines by less than 1% of annual consumption, pr ... |
| Human Rights and drug policy [01.01.2020] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) has always believed in the need to find global answers to global problems, been a strong defender of multilateralis ... |
| Philippines police chief and Duterte drug war enforcer resigns in meth scandal [14.10.2019] | The chief of police in the Philippines has stepped down after facing historical accusations in the Senate that he protected officers who had resold c ... |
| Rodrigo Duterte's drug war is 'large-scale murdering enterprise' says Amnesty [08.07.2019] | The president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte is carrying out a “large-scale murdering enterprise” and should be investigated by the UN for crimes ... |
| INCB stronger than ever before on decriminalisation, capital punishment & extrajudicial killings [28.06.2019] | The INCB dedicated one of its latest series of Alerts, from June 2019, to the issue of ‘State responses to drug-related criminality’, covering decrim ... |
| The real failure of Southeast Asia’s drug wars [18.06.2019] | There may come a day when Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is brought before the International Criminal Court to answer questions about his “war ... |
| ‘They came to kill.’ Almost 5 die daily at hands of Rio police [26.05.2019] | Shooting from helicopters, armored personnel carriers or at close range, police officers in Rio de Janeiro have gunned down 558 people during the fir ... |
| ‘They have free rein’: Rio residents fear police violence under far-right rule [17.05.2019] | During campaigning last year, Rio’s new, far-right governor, Wilson Witzel, promised a “slaughter” of gun-toting drug gangsters using helicopters and ... |
| Sri Lanka president uses Easter attacks to fuel Duterte-inspired drug war [01.05.2019] | For Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena, the War on Drugs and the War on Terror go hand-in-hand. And the Easter attacks that rocked the capital ... |
| Rodrigo Duterte photographed with suspected Chinese ‘drug lords’, says former narcotics official [25.03.2019] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has faced widespread criticism over his deadly drug crackdown, has been photographed with two Chinese men s ... |
| The campaign for a 'drug-free world' is costing lives [20.03.2019] | Drug control efforts across the world are a threat to human dignity and the right to life. The first problem lies with the founding aspiration of the ... |
| How Duterte’s exaggerations worsened the Philippines’ drug problem [28.02.2019] | We’re nearing the midpoint of the Duterte administration, yet we’re nowhere near solving the Philippines' drug problem. By all accounts, things even ... |
| From the Philippines to Indonesia and Afghanistan, Asia’s brutal drug policies have failed [20.02.2019] | The so-called “war on drugs” has persisted without an honest assessment by governments of its effectiveness, nor its impacts, despite UN reports show ... |
| Rodrigo Duterte: Philippines president suggests deadly war on drug dealers will get even ‘bloodier’ [20.02.2019] | Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte warned his signature anti-narcotics campaign will be even harsher in the future, signalling no let-up in a blood ... |
| Duterte's Philippines drug war death toll rises above 5,000 [19.12.2018] | Derrick Carreon, a spokesman for the Philippine drug enforcement agency (PDEA), said that, according to official figures, between July 2016 and the e ... |
| Time for a truce in Asia’s war on drugs [03.11.2018] | Global attitudes on narcotic drugs are changing, but the shift has come too late for those caught up in Asia’s past decade of misguided and often let ... |
| Taking stock of a decade of failed drug policies [22.10.2018] | Ten years ago, UN member states set themselves a target ‘to eliminate or reduce significantly and measurably’ the illicit cultivation, production, tr ... |
| Report says the UN's global 'war on drugs' has been a failure [22.10.2018] | The United Nations' drug strategy of the past 10 years has been a failure, according to a major report by the International Drug Policy Consortium (I ... |
| Duterte confesses: 'My only sin is the extrajudicial killings' [28.09.2018] | President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted for the first time to authorising extrajudicial killings as part of his war on drugs in the Philippines. Duter ... |
| Mexico’s new president has a radical plan to end the drug war [15.08.2018] | Since the military took to the streets to fight the increasingly powerful and violent cartels producing and trafficking drugs north to consumers in t ... |
| The people left behind by Philippines' brutal war on drugs [14.08.2018] | One year after visiting the Philippines to document the impact of President Rodrigo Duterte’s crackdown on drugs, photographer James Whitlow Delano r ... |
| Philippine police vow 'surgical and chilling' war on drugs, crime [30.07.2018] | Philippine police vowed to revamp and intensify a fight against crime and drugs, a week after President Rodrigo Duterte promised no letup in a bloody ... |
| Duterte vows more bloodshed in Philippine ‘drug war’ [23.07.2018] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed to continue his murderous “war on drugs,” saying “it will be as relentless and chilling as on the day it b ... |
| Record coca, record murders: the flipside of “peace” in southern Colombia [20.06.2018] | Hundreds of Colombian farmers, activists, and community organisers have been killed over the past 18 months, despite the landmark peace deal that sup ... |
| Philippines' Duterte says no 'justice' for families of drugs war casualties [19.06.2018] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said the families of people killed in his controversial war on drugs will not receive “justice”, rejecting calls ... |
| Pledge to arm Philippine community chiefs sparks 'Wild West' fears [13.06.2018] | The Philippines interior ministry plans to acquire pistols for community leaders willing to fight crime, sparking fears of more lawless bloodshed in ... |
| 'I will arrest you': Duterte threatens ICC lawyer over 'war on drugs' [13.04.2018] | Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to arrest an International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor if she conducts activities in his cou ... |
| Philippine court halts govt move to keep drug war kill records secret [03.04.2018] | The Philippine Supreme Court ordered police to hand over full records of thousands of deadly encounters in the country’s war on drugs, thwarting a go ... |
| Philippines tars rights groups with ‘drug lords’ smear [26.03.2018] | Philippine presidential spokesman Harry Roque alleged that “some human rights groups have become unwitting tools of drug lords to hinder the strides ... |
| Duterte to withdraw Philippines from ICC after 'outrageous attacks' [14.03.2018] | The Philippines said it is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC) due to what President Rodrigo Duterte called “outrageous” attacks ... |
| Rodrigo Duterte tells police not to cooperate in drug war investigation [02.03.2018] | President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the Philippines’ police and soldiers not to cooperate in any investigation into his bloody war on drugs, amid i ... |
| Duterte to Int'l Criminal Court: Drug war continues, case or no case [12.02.2018] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte sought to appear unfazed by the International Criminal Court’s preliminary examination into his drug war, saying ... |
| Philippines says Hague Tribunal will investigate Duterte over drug war [08.02.2018] | The International Criminal Court is opening a preliminary investigation into accusations that President Rodrigo Duterte and other Philippine official ... |
| Philippine police return to war on drugs, cannot promise no bloodshed [29.01.2018] | Police in the Philippines resumed President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, making visits to the homes of users and dealers to convince them to surre ... |
| The War on Drugs in Southeast Asia [29.01.2018] | While the world’s attention has been focused on the carnage of the Philippine Drug War, which has resulted in an estimated 13,000 deaths from anti-na ... |
| Duterte's drug war in 2017: The year of deaths and denials [19.12.2017] | It's been a news cycle of deaths and denials in 2017 in the Philippines. Practically every day TV footages, online posts, and newspaper photos showed ... |
| How a secretive police squad racked up kills in Duterte's drug war [19.12.2017] | Soon after President Rodrigo Duterte launched his war on drugs, a small group of police officers from his hometown Davao arrived in the Philippine ca ... |
| Police have killed dozens of children in Philippines war on drugs, Amnesty says [04.12.2017] | Police have killed dozens of children in the “war on drugs” in the Philippines in the last 18 months, Amnesty International said. The rights group ur ... |
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