Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 02:49:24 +0000
The number of drug suspects killed in anti-drug operations has reached 5,526, data from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 11:46:29 +0000
Malacañang slammed as an “abuse of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) processes” the Iceland-led resolution that would probe the human rights situation in the Philippines.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 11:39:11 +0000
Former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque has called the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) a “toothless tiger.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:15:16 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Leni Robredo is ready to face any impeachment cases that will be filed against her for supporting the United Nation Human Right Council’s (UNHRC) probe into the government’s drug war, her spokesperson said on Sunday.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 04:52:10 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Oscar Albayalde on Friday said the Communist Party of the Philippines
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 14:05:19 +0000
Senator Francis Pangilinan urged the government on Thursday to heed the call of the draft resolution directing UNHRC to look into the human rights situation in the Philippines.
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 08:24:13 +0000
Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa on Thursday said he is getting tired of allegations of human rights violations in the country.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:05:35 +0000
Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo on Wednesday urged Amnesty International to stop peddling “bogus information” on the Duterte administration’s war on drugs.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 15:04:43 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte said he would rather be accused in connection with the drug war killings than of corruption.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 03:42:38 +0000
Bulacan has become the country’s “bloodiest killing field” with a spike in killings in the Duterte administration’s brutal war on drugs, Amnesty International said.
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