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Housing in Tondo, Manila, Philippines. (file)
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UN rights chief calls for murder investigation after Philippine President admits to killing three people

20 December 2016
Stressing that the killing of “about three” people, which the President of the Philippines admitted to personally committing while serving as the Mayor of the city of Davao clearly constituted murder, the United Nations human rights chief called on the judicial authorities in the country to uphold the rule of law and investigate the self-professed crimes.
Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial summary or arbitrary Executions.
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Philippines: UN expert rejects Government-imposed conditions on fact-finding mission

16 December 2016
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on summary executions urged the Government of the Philippines to lift a series of preconditions it has imposed on her planned visit to investigate the alleged extra-judicial killings of suspected drug dealers, since President Rodrigo Duterte took office.
Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías

UN adviser on preventing genocide alarmed over ‘disrespectful’ comments by Philippines President

30 September 2016
The United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, expressed alarm today at public comments by President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, in which he reinforced a campaign to kill millions of drug addicts in the Philippines and compared it to the massacre of millions of Jews by Hitler during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
Heroin.
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UN rights experts urge Philippines to end wave of extrajudicial killings amid major drug crackdown

18 August 2016
Amid a recent massive anti-crime and anti-drug crackdown in the Philippines that has claimed the lives of more than 850 suspected criminals, two United Nations human rights experts today urged the Government to end the wave of extrajudicial executions and killings, stressing that drug charges should be “judged in a court of law, not by gunmen on the streets.”
Joan Carling, an indigenous activist from the Cordillera, Philippines, is an expert member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
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Role for indigenous in global sustainable future

18 May 2016
General News

The ability to “read” changes in weather patterns or in animal behaviour has saved indigenous communities from natural disasters for centuries.

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