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Duterte tells the truth

This time, President Duterte is telling the truth: he has killed people without the victim or victims going through due process.

Duterte tells the truth

Now, it’s media’s fault

   By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IN trying to control damage wrought by the President Duterte’s verbal rampage against the United Nations in the early hours Sunday, Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay, Jr.  on Monday chose to put the blame on media. “It was done in the wee hours of the morning and he was very tired,

Now, it’s media’s fault

Extrajudicial killings in the Philippines: Is the situation really improving?

By CAROLYN MERCADO
DESPITE the advent of a new and popular administration and President Aquino’s promise to end all human rights violations, the country has not seen the last of them. Torture, extrajudicial killings, and enforced disappearances continue with impunity. They continue to be widespread and systematic, with most victims tagged as “enemies of the state” and the majority of the suspects identified as state security forces.

Extrajudicial killings in the Philippines: Is the situation really improving?

Press and civil society effective weapons vs EJKs

A STRONG civil society and a vigilant press have been the country’s most effective weapons against extrajudicial killings, in the face of government’s failure to both prevent and prosecute such cases, a human rights lawyer said recently.

Press and civil society effective weapons vs EJKs