2019年2月11日 · Since the election of Rodrigo Duterte in June 2016, a violent ‘war on drugs’ has claimed upwards of 5,000 lives in the Philippines. Executions by police and militia groups that target drug dealers and users not only exacerbate the drug problem but constitute a violation of the right to freedom from execution by extrajudicial killing.

Philippine extrajudicial killings are politically motivated murders committed by government officers, punished by local and international law or convention.

2024年1月8日 · Despite the 6,229 claim of Duterte, his own government agencies competed for the numbers. Under the hashtag #RealNumbersPH, the Duterte government said in June 2019 that there were 5,526 deaths of...

2024年4月24日 · MANILA, Philippines — A report from the United States (U.S.) Department of State said that extrajudicial killings (EJKs) in the Philippines remain a “serious problem”. In a 58-page Country...

Since Duterte’s inauguration as the 16th president of the Philippines in 2016, the country has witnessed a steep surge in gross violations of human rights. Extrajudicial killings (EJKs) has become the hallmark of the Duterte administration’s governance.

This case study focuses on EJK in the Philippines which has played a key defining role in EJK internationally, specifically on police encounter shootings and death squad killings during the 'War on Drugs' that began in 2016.

2024年5月24日 · EJK technically refers to politically motivated killings carried out by influential people who are protected from accountability by the authority of the states to which they are affiliated.

xtrajudicial killing (EJK) consists of state killing outside the formal legal system of a country and thus constitutes state crime, a category of crime in which the state itself performs criminal acts (Watts 2016). The Philippines has experienced periodic waves of EJK during its long-running leftist insurgency (1969 to present). In the current

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) welcomes and fully supports the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recent pronouncement to establish a dedicated task force to investigate and prosecute perpetrators of extrajudicial killings (EJKs) related to the anti-illegal drug campaign of the previous administration.

Its core programs include human rights education, research, law and policy reform, and public interest litigation. This submission highlights extrajudicial and summary killings in the country. Among such cases are those perpetrated in relation to …