“There is always a context behind one person’s addiction.”
The drug menace as a health problem
Tags: war on drugs
Duterte’s other war
The Duterte administration could succeed where others have failed in ending the longest-running guerilla war in Asia. But it has launched another war whose outcome is likely to be even more uncertain unless the problem it wants to address is also recognized as a consequence of the social and economic infirmities of a country in…
Rights groups on Duterte’s war on drugs: Stop the killings
“It is through upholding the rights of the people, especially social and economic rights, that the people can repudiate the use and trade of illegal drugs.”
‘Drug-related summary executions same as political killings’
“The ongoing killings by law enforcers in the name of the war on drugs and without due process, is not any different from what the police and military under Jovito Palparan, Arroyo and Aquino did to activists and media workers who criticized government.”
Poverty is down
By DEE AYROSO
‘Cardboard justice’ | Youth groups stand against killings
“We don’t want to have a country where we are forced to live with fear…There is no justifiable reason for any forms of killings—may it be drug-related or political. We urge the president, let us end this.”
Attack on PCIJ condemned
“It is evident that whoever is behind the condemnable attacks on PCIJ seek to silence those who do not share their views on this contentious issue.”
Feeding the fire
