Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 23:25:55 +0000
Malacañang on Saturday lauded the “objectivity and balance” of the global human rights report of the US Department of State for 2018, even as it downplayed continued reports of extrajudicial killings (EJKs), rights abuses and threats against media.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 21:12:14 +0000
A 42-year-old drug suspect was killed after he allegedly traded shots with Caloocan City policemen on Wednesday.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 23:27:34 +0000
By saying the International Criminal Court (ICC) cannot try President Duterte for the thousands of killings in his brutal war on drugs, the country’s top two legal officers betrayed their ignorance of the Rome Statute, human rights lawyer Neri Colmenares said on Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 22:50:06 +0000
Sri Lanka’s military is teaming with police to invigorate an anti-narcotics drive by its president who has vowed to end a 43-year moratorium on capital punishment and execute condemned drug traffickers, top military officials said Friday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:32:29 +0000
There is no place for impunity in the Duterte administration, Malacañang said on Monday.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:31:19 +0000
LUCENA CITY — Activist priest Robert Reyes said he was under constant surveillance and harassment from suspicious people and now lived like a hunted person.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2019 21:37:21 +0000
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Sunday condemned the continued threats to the life of Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, vice president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, which has forced him to restrict his movements.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:14:48 +0000
The Diocese of Kalookan was supposed to hold a celebration for Bishop Pablo Virgilio “Ambo” David’s 60th birthday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 14:47:00 +0000
Seventy-one percent of Filipinos believe that the government is serious in solving problems of extra judicial killings (EJK).
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 14:20:31 +0000
Most Filipinos fear that they or anyone they know will be a victim of extrajudical killings (EJK), a Social Weather Station survey result showed.
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