STANDPOINT | Political killings in the Philippines – complicity in murder

On Thursday, 2 March, Jimboy Tapdasan Pesadilla was contacted by a neighbour to go to his parents’ house urgently. When he got to the house, he found several neighbours outside the house and a team of police inside, taking pictures. His father and mother had both been shot dead.

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President Rodrigo Duterte said he is not a lapdog of the US, China or any other country, but only of the Filipino people. (TOTO LOZANO/Presidential Photo)

STATEMENT | Scientists to Duterte: Retract signature on Paris Agreement

Through provisions such as the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, it puts the responsibility of meeting target emission cuts at the burden of developing countries without holding corporations that are among the biggest historical polluters accountable.

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