By: Tony S. Bergonia -INQUIRER.net /November 23, 2021 MANILA, Philippines—The direct role of the Philippine government in civilian-targeting in its bloody campaign against drugs has escalated since 2020, and the bloodshed has no signs of subsiding, according to a US data analysis group. “The Philippine state has taken an increasingly large role in targeting civilians…
Human rights activists in the US displayed “tsinelas” across Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. to protest the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines. They called the US Congress to block US security assistance to the Philippines and to stop funding the Philippine police and military.According to the International Coalition for Human Rights, each pair represented 10…
Nov 17, 2021, Loreben Tuquero MANILA, Philippines The newly-launched Movement Against Disinformation will not focus on individual posts but on the platforms that allow them to be disseminated A newly-launched coalition against disinformation called on Facebook to implement a “more robust approach” to moderating election-related disinformation, in line with the upcoming Philippine national elections in…
Philstar.com, November 21, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — A global human rights coalition on Sunday morning called on the International Criminal Court to “proceed without delay” with its investigation into alleged crimes against humanity in the Duterte administration’s “war on drugs”. In a statement sent to media, the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines said that the…
By: Gabriel Pabico Lalu – Reporter /INQUIRER.net /November 19, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The death of a 67-year-old political prisoner, who succumbed to stomach cancer, shows the alleged double standards of the country’s justice system, rights group Karapatan claimed on Friday. According to Karapatan’s secretary general Cristina Palabay, the death of Antonio Molina, who was…
Nov 18, 2021, Rappler Investigative Team MANILA, Philippines Alleged Davao Death Squad members and enablers have become senators, department heads, and leaders in their own offices after Rodrigo Duterte became president When self-confessed former Davao Death Squad (DDS) gunman Arturo Lascañas presented himself to the International Criminal Court, he said he remembered the people whom…
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By JOHN PAUL NACIONBulatlat.com MANILA – Filipino artists are calling on the government to jail the other half of the Marcos conjugal dictatorship, Imelda Marcos, who has been convicted of several graft charges three years ago but remains scot-free. The Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses and Martial Law (Carmma) posted on its Facebook…