ANDANAR tells human rights watchdogs to uphold the highest level of integrity and credibility to maintain their relevance The Duterte administration has prioritized human rights and dignity of all Filipinos in the time of the pandemic, Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar said Wednesday, denying a […]
Panel probing deaths is no ruse MANILA – Malacañang disagreed with the Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) statement that the newly formed inter-agency panel that would investigate more than 5,600 deaths in the administration’s war on drugs is “a ruse to shield the country from international… Read More Reserve […]
HRW WORLD REPORT 2020: Duterte’s anti-drug campaign remains as brutal as when it started The Philippine government’s murderous “war on drugs” remained the Philippines’ gravest human rights concern in 2019, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2020. Security forces were also implicated in often deadly attacks on […]
KLINE: DUTERTE A MASS MURDERER By ABS/CBN News President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday night warned that he will slap a foreign human rights advocate if he enters the country to help Vice President Leni Robredo end the drug war. “P******** Leni, sa harap mo sampalin ko ‘yan,” he […]
MAYOR Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at Human Rights Watch after the New York-based human rights group asked the Aquino administration to conduct a probe on his alleged involvement in extrajudicial killings in Davao City. Duterte on Tuesday night, May 19, sent a very brief text message Davao City-based […]
BY ROGER M. BALANZA HRW: 298 murders from 2007 to 2013 under former Mayor Rey Uy. The mayor of Davao del Norte’s capital city of Tagum has confirmed the existence of the Tagum Death Squad whose gunmen were under the payroll of the Tagum City local government, who […]
