By DEE AYROSO
The professor
Tags: ICC
‘No let-up on human rights abuses despite UN reso, joint program in PH’ – advocates
In her oral update, Bachelet urged political aspirants on all sides to “set aside the ugly rhetoric against human rights defenders, attack (on) independent media, or (in condoning) extra-judicial killings and other violations and abuses.”
‘Overwhelming support’ for ICC probe against Duterte may lead to formal investigation
A group of human rights lawyers in the Philippines said that the “overwhelming support” that the International Criminal Court received from approximately 1,530 individual victims and 1,050 families who fell victims of the government’s “war on drugs” may lead to a formal investigation.
‘Long wait for justice is finally coming to light’ – kin of drug-related killings
“I was so elated that I could barely sleep. I’m thinking that ‘this is it!’ Our long wait for justice is finally coming to light.”
ICC prosecutor seeks authorization to start probe of drug-related killings in PH
“…[t]here is a reasonable basis to believe that the crime against humanity of murder has been committed on the territory of the Philippines between 1 July 2016 and 16 March 2019 in the context of the Government of Philippines ‘war on drugs’ campaign.”
UN experts, rights defenders all over the world say #StopTheKillings in the Philippines
UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard urged UN member States to “apply sanctions against Filipino officials who have committed, who have incited, or who have failed to investigate or prevent human rights violations including arbitrary killings.”
Worldwide lawyers’ group backs charges vs Duterte in international courts
The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) supports the case filed with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against President Rodrigo Duterte and the UN Human Rights Council resolution seeking to investigate the human rights situation in the Philippines. It vowed to support the filing of other suits against Duterte “for violations of international human rights law.”
PH withdrawal from ICC to worsen impunity, groups say
“The Duterte government is run by pathological liars and militarists who are corrupt to the core, able to subvert laws and mechanisms to evade accountability.”
Complainants, witnesses submit Int’l tribunal’s verdict to ICC
Complainants and witnesses of the recently-concluded International People’s Tribunal submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) a copy of its Verdict, Indictment, Case Summaries and other evidence presented before its jurors. The IPT found President Rodrigo Duterte, US President Donald Trump, and international monetary organizations guilty of violating the Filipino people’s political and economic rights,…
Why kin of drug war victims charged Duterte for mass murder before ICC
“The poor have been striving hard to get out of poverty but the President’s answer buried them instead, literally and figuratively.”
‘Duterte wants to be immune,’ groups say of PH withdrawal from Rome Statute
“He wants to be immune and act with impunity both under domestic law and under international law.”