Two farmers were killed in Davao Oriental in an escalating violent conflict between the New People’s Army and the military in the week that followed the Communist Party of the Philippine's lifting of its unilateral ceasefire.
Ren Clacer, member of the New Jersey Filipino Women’s Organizing Committee, said they ?were alarmed with Trump's "unjust policies towards immigrants, the poor, people of color, and other marginalized groups - further oppressing people who are victims of US policies in their homelands."
Police forces involved in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs were likened to a “criminal underworld” that kill only the poor while receives payments for each killing, according to an Amnesty International report.
Human rights group Karapatan warned Wednesday that the proposal to reinstate death penalty in the country will affect human rights defenders, dissenters, and especially political prisoners.
A New York-based human rights organization said Tuesday that the United Nations should conduct an international investigation that would look into the killings in the Philippines amid announcement by the government to suspend its anti-illegal drug campaign.