Items tagged with extrajudicial killings
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| Asia’s violent anti-drug crackdowns are hurting people, not the drug trade [09.11.2017] | With regional and international heads of state gathering in Manila for the 31st Asean Summit, it seems appropriate to examine whether there are more ... |
| Killings won't solve drug problem, ex-Thai PM Abhisit says [21.10.2017] | Recounting the experience of Thailand, former Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said killing addicts can never solve the drug problem, as long as ... |
| Indonesia endorses killing drug suspects to cut costs [16.10.2017] | Indonesia’s National Narcotics Agency (BNN) head has an innovative approach to reducing incarceration costs: killing drug suspects so that they never ... |
| Philippine lawyers ask Supreme Court to halt 'illegal' war on drugs [11.10.2017] | Philippine lawyers filed an injunction with the Supreme Court to try to stop President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs, calling it as an illega ... |
| Is the Philippines violent drug war spreading to Indonesia? [06.10.2017] | The Philippine war on drugs, led by President Rodrigo Duterte, has been eviscerated by human rights advocates due to its reliance on extrajudicial ki ... |
| 'Philippines risks ICC intervention if it snubs human rights recommendations' [02.10.2017] | The Philippines risks international erosion of trust in its institutions and the intervention of the International Criminal Court if it doesn't act o ... |
| IDPC response to the INCB Annual Report for 2016 [30.09.2017] | The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Annual Report for 2016 is, as usual, a mixed bag of high quality data and sometimes doubtful politic ... |
| Philippines tells UN rights body: No extrajudicial killings [23.09.2017] | The Philippine government has denied the existence of extrajudicial killings in the country before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), r ... |
| Third Philippine teen killed, threatening to turn sentiment turns against President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war [06.09.2017] | A 14-year-old boy whose body was found with dozens of stab wounds is the latest atrocity in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, critics ... |
| Philippines’ Duterte admits murderous ‘drug war’ is unwinnable [31.08.2017] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted that his abusive "war on drugs" is unwinnable. Duterte told a gathering of military personnel that ... |
| 'Please stop!' Brutal killing of a student in Philippines drug war sparks nationwide anger [23.08.2017] | The killing of a 17-year-old student in the Philippines has sparked nationwide protest and multiple government investigations, moves which many hope ... |
| What LatAm cities can learn from the failures of Brazil's UPP policing model [01.08.2017] | Community policing has become the go-to security strategy in the Americas. But as the case of the Rio de Janeiro's "pacification" policing experiment ... |
| Philippine police 'dumping bodies' of drug war victims [28.07.2017] | Fishermen in the Philippines have revealed that they have been dumping bodies of drug suspects, killed as part of the country's so-called war on drug ... |
| Why Jokowi's war on drugs is doing more harm than good [26.07.2017] | Indonesian President Joko Widodo has directed police to shoot suspected drug dealers, citing the need to be "firm" in the face of a national "narcoti ... |
| Rodrigo Duterte pushing Philippines' drugs market to Indonesia, anti-narcotics chief says [26.07.2017] | Indonesia's anti-narcotics chief has declared Indonesia to have the "biggest" illicit drugs market in the world, revealing 72 international drug synd ... |
| Duterte hits drug war critics [24.07.2017] | President Rodrigo Duterte blasted his critics who allegedly turn a blind eye on crimes in the country while supporting "Western experts" who have con ... |
| Joko Widodo: Police should shoot suspected drug dealers [23.07.2017] | President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has instructed police to shoot suspected drug dealers to combat what he considers a narcotics emergency facing Indones ... |
| Death toll mounts in Rio de Janeiro as police lose control of the city – and of themselves [17.07.2017] | Even in Brazil, where homicides are really common, Rio de Janeiro’s crime rate is stunning. It is now impossible not to notice that the city’s Police ... |
| Filipinos flee Duterte’s violent drug crackdown [04.06.2017] | Every morning before dawn, Rosario Perez checks to make sure her sons are still alive. The three brothers, all in their 20s, sleep at the houses of f ... |
| We have waged war on drugs for a century. So who won? [29.05.2017] | While Rodrigo Duterte was campaigning to be elected president of the Philippines last year, he said on many occasions that he would arrange, if elect ... |
| Charge Rodrigo Duterte with mass murder, lawyer tells The Hague [24.04.2017] | Filipino lawyer Jude Josue Sabio asked the International Criminal Court in The Hague to charge President Rodrigo Duterte and 11 other Philippine offi ... |
| Police describe kill rewards, staged crime scenes in Duterte's drug war [18.04.2017] | The Philippine police have received cash payments for executing drug suspects, planted evidence at crime scenes and carried out most of the killings ... |
| Philippines police plant evidence to justify killings in drug war, says report [02.03.2017] | Human Rights Watch has accused Philippines police of falsifying evidence to justify unlawful killings in the government’s war on drugs that has cause ... |
| The Philippine paradox [22.02.2017] | In the constant, daily laboured birth of the global cannabis industry, there is no greater paradox than the Philippines. On one hand, you have incred ... |
| Ex-Officer in Philippines says he led death squad at Duterte’s behest [20.02.2017] | A retired police officer racked with guilt over the murders of two of his own brothers has reversed himself and confessed to leading the Philippine d ... |
| 'They are slaughtering us like animals' [06.12.2016] | I had come to document the bloody and chaotic campaign against drugs that President Rodrigo Duterte began when he took office on June 30: since then ... |
| Duterte’s war on drugs: bitter lessons from Thailand’s failed campaign [28.09.2016] | The body count from Philippine President Duterte’s “war on drugs” is growing by the day; more than 3,000 casualties leading to broad international co ... |
| Duterte’s fiercest critic booted from committee investigating killings [19.09.2016] | Accused of bias after she allowed a self-confessed hitman to link Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to over a thousand murders, Senator Leila De L ... |
| Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to extend drug war as 'cannot kill them all' [18.09.2016] | Rodrigo Duterte has asked for a six-month extension for his war on drugs, saying there are too many people involved in the narcotics trade and he "ca ... |
| Duterte ready to answer UN queries on drug killings [22.08.2016] | President Duterte dared United Nations (UN) experts to come to the Philippines and face him in a public meeting where he would answer all their quest ... |
| Duterte may face international court for drug deaths, senator says [15.08.2016] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte could face charges for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the spate of killi ... |
| Too near our doorsteps: guns and the war on drugs [02.08.2016] | The spate of killings in the Phillipines has clearly drawn the divide – on the surface, between the rich and poor, but at the core, between those who ... |
| Philippines president promises 'no let up' in brutal anti-drugs crackdown [24.07.2016] | The Philippines leader known as “The Punisher” has defended his government’s brutal crackdown on the drugs trade in his inaugural State of the Nation ... |
| Another UN agency savages the drug war [16.03.2015] | The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN agency charged with developing strategies to reduce global poverty, has strongly criticised c ... |
| Into the breach: Drugs, control, and violating bad laws in good ways [27.11.2014] | An October statement on drug control from the US State Department has prompted much comment and speculation at home and abroad. Delivered by Ambassad ... |
| Do falling murders in Rio mean success for Brazil's UPPs? [18.12.2013] | Homicides have fallen 65 percent in the Rio de Janeiro favelas where Police Pacification Units have been installed during four years of the flagship ... |
| Why do Brazilian police kill? [20.11.2013] | An average of five people were killed by police every day in Brazil last year, according to an annual security report, revealing an entrenched cultur ... |
| Whither Rio de Janeiro’s Police Pacification Units? [18.11.2013] | Rio de Janeiro’s Pacification Police Units (UPP) are celebrating their fifth year in 2013. They do so with generally positive approval ratings from t ... |
| Rio police charged over torture and death of missing favela man [02.10.2013] | Ten police in Rio de Janeiro have been charged with the torture and killing of a resident of the city's biggest favela in a case that has highlighted ... |
| Drug policy reform is breaking through at the international level [24.03.2013] | Change is in the air ... But the pace could be quickened a bit. While the international policymaking body on drugs has long been stuck in neutral, th ... |
| Mérida: continued support for a failed strategy [21.05.2012] | Some five years ago, after Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón declared a War on Drugs followed by a firm military crackdown on drug trafficking organ ... |
| INCB’s tortured logic [02.04.2012] | On several recent occasions, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has refused to offer an opinion on sanctions that violate international ... |
| Narcotics watchdog turns blind eye to rights abuses [28.03.2012] | In a world where drug offences are punishable with the death penalty, torture or arbitrary detention, we must ask how far States can go to enforce th ... |
| Recalibrating the Regime [04.03.2008] | This new report, co-authored by the HR2 team, looks at the tensions between some aspects of the global drug control system and international human ri ... |
| Closed to Reason [21.02.2008] | A report published in March 2007 by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and the Open Society Institute Public Health Program, strongly criticises the ... |
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