“We fight not only for our sons and husbands. We do this for the killings to stop. So that there will be no more victims.”
Drawing strength from one another | Mothers vow to continue fight for justice
Tags: International Criminal Court
Karapatan dares gov’t not to thwart probe of rights violations in PH
“We echo the same challenge to the Duterte government and its rabid gang of militarists: If indeed human rights organizations are merely spouting lies to defame the government, then do not block efforts by the ICC (International Criminal Court) and United Nations Independent Experts to investigate these human rights violations that we have reported and exposed.”
Facing up to drug war killings, Duterte turns to fatalism
“For the things I have said, ordered and done, I am willing to put my neck here. Maybe someday, this ICC [International Criminal Court]… if they decide to hang me I would be very glad to go.” With a fatalistic twinge, President Duterte was quoted as having said this last Wednesday, as he considered the…
Kin of ’Tokhang’ victims file raps vs. Duterte before ICC
“I don’t want others to suffer the same fate as that of my son.”
Continuing killings and intensifying war
After threatening to resign last week in an outburst of exasperation and claiming to be tired, he now says, “No, I will not resign!” Yes, he acknowledges that he wouldn’t be able to fulfill his campaign promises to end the long-festering problems of illegal drugs, criminality, and corruption even beyond his six-year term. He has…
Duterte gov’t’s proclivity for short cuts backfires
People have been saying this all along; the Duterte administration could not solve the illegal drug problem with the use of uncontrolled violence and shortcuts that disregard human rights. And they were right. The Duterte administration’s bloody war on drugs has not made a dent on the illegal drug trade despite more than 12,000 extrajudicial,…
The Bigger Picture
Those who easily condemn Nicole forget what she has been up against in pursuing the rape case against US Marine L/Cpl. Daniel Smith. BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World The headline of a widely circulated broadsheet screams, “Nicole recants, clears Smith”. For the first time, the face of the young Filipina raped by a…