Human Rights Watch says President Duterte and his men are criminally liable for drug war-related extrajudicial killings, which may be considered crimes against humanity, reports Inquirer.net. The 124-page report claims that police are involved in so-called vigilante killings and are planting evidence in crime scenes.
Three global non-government organizations -- the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) and Amnesty International -- have condemned the arrest of Senator Leila De Lima over non-bailable drug charges and urged the Philippine government to release her immediately, reports Interaksyon.
About 11.2 million adults remained jobless in the last quarter of 2016, the worst in two years according to the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey, reports Inquirer.net.
Dr. A. Gabriel Esteban (Source: DePaul University)
A Filipino will be the president of DePaul University in Chicago, considered the largest Catholic university in the United States. Dr. A. Gabriel Esteban, who is originally from the Philippines, will leave his current post as the head of Seton Hall University, reports Inquirer.net.
Bataan communities allegedly affected coal-fired power plants in two towns have taken to Facebook to mobilize support for their plight, reports Rappler.
Amnesty International in its new report says “toxic” fear-mongering by anti-establishment politicians, among them Presidents Donald Trump and Rodrigo Duterte, is contributing to a global pushback against human rights, reports Inquirer.net.
Citing data from non-governmental group Kalikasan, which recorded the killings of environmental activists in the first 7 months of the current administration, Vice President Leni Robredo seeks to have the deaths investigated, reports Rappler.
The family of Primitivo Mijares, a former insider in the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos who turned critic and later disappeared (presumed assassinate), has launched a new edition of his book, The Conjugal Dictatorship, an expose of the the shenanigans and inner workings of Marcos' rule, reports ABS-CBN News.
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