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Sereno eyes legal moves to prevent rights abuse

THE Supreme Court is looking for new legal measures to protect human rights amid the rising death toll in the government’s war on illegal...

Color blind

Six days after the killing of a 17-year-old boy, whom the police insist was a drug courier, the outrage continues. Rightly so. Emerging details on...

Revolution

Of course, no one should be killed by the police on the mere suspicion of being a drug pusher. That would still be all...

Rody calls Noy stupid after reckless remark

President Rodrigo Duterte  took potshots at his  predecessor’s  ‘careless’ remarks and  branded him  as “stupid”  for claiming that there has been no progress in...

Poor execution

THERE is a tendency to connect the recent killing of Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog to that of Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa. Both men...

UN urged to act on ‘smear campaign’ against Callamard

The United Nation on Wednesday urged the UN Human Rights Council president Joaquin Alexander Maza Martelli to make an action on smear campaign against...

Duterte vows to kill EU ‘rights activists’

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte threatened to behead human rights advocates who criticized the country’s record Friday and refused to investigate thousands of deaths attributed to...

Cayetano made matters worse

Despite attempts of the Philippine delegation to window-dress President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on illegal drugs before the United Nations Human Rights Council in...

Not our job

TOURISM Secretary Wanda Teo wants the press to make her job easier by playing down news of the summary executions that have been the...

Tokhang resumes: Four killed, couple arrested

FOUR suspected drug pushers were killed and a couple were arrested in four separate incidents in Bulacan and Pampanga hours after the relaunch of...

The President must listen

More people are coming out to criticize the institutionalization of extra-judicial killings in the context of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on illegal drugs. The Catholic...

Committing the same mistakes

VALENTINE’S Day, supposedly a day for lovers, has some historical origins. We Filipinos copied the celebrations from the Americans. And as usual, we have...

Palace: Drug war backed by people

There is no “mounting opposition” to President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs, Malacañang claimed on Saturday, as it slammed United Nations rapporteur Agnes...

Cambodia shuns EJKs in war on illegal drugs

CAMBODIAN Prime Minister Hun Sen has rejected Philippine-style killings in his country’s six-month campaign against illegal drugs, the Khmer Times reported Thursday. Speaking in Phnom...
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