Relatives of victims of drug war and extrajudicial killings hold LED candle lights during a mass following the arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, in Quezon City, Philippines, March 11, 2025. REUTERS/Lisa Marie David MANILA (Reuters) -Former Philippine President ...
This came at a time when trade with the Philippines – the largest banana impor- ter to China – had already been restricted following disputes between the two countries over territorial rights in the South China Sea (Friis and Nielsen 2017). The search for new land frontiers for banana ...
2011, when he was still mayor of Davao, to March 16, 2019, as possible crimes against humanity. Duterte withdrew the Philippines in 2019 from the Rome Statute in a move human rights activists say was aimed at escaping accountability over the killings. ...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine ex-President Rodrigo Duterte, who left a savage legacy from his deadly anti-drugs crackdown, was arrested on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity for the thousands killed in a war ...
This compliance is due to the Philippines’ continued membership in Interpol, despite the country’s withdrawal from the ICC in 2019. Drug war numbers The government data estimates 6,000 deaths during the implementation anti-drug campaign of the Duterte administration. ...
Drug resistance in malaria parasites is a serious public health burden, and resistance to most of the antimalarial drugs currently in use has been reported. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of drug resistance is urgently needed to slow or circumvent the spread of resistance, to ...
In October of the same year the American government in the Philippines, having to deal with the opium trade, raised the question of the taking of joint measures for its suppression by the powers interested, and as a result a conference met at Shanghai on the 1st of February 1909 to which...
The implications of this finding may be particularly relevant as 28 % of all MTB strains belong to L1 and have been identified mostly in high MDR-TB burden countries as India, Philippines and Bangladesh [16], countries where the new shorter regimens could really represent a game changer for ...
Laufer sketched out the three routes by which tobacco diffused through Asia. The first route began in Mexico, from where the Spanish took tobacco (mainly in the form of cigars) to the Philippines in the sixteenth century. Via the Philippines it reached Taiwan, parts of mainland China, Korea,...
Martial Law in the Philippines View All 19 Images “He’s a high-value target on illegal drugs,” said Espenido, who oversaw the raids, at a news conference. Parojinog became the third mayor to lose his life in Duterte's war on drugs, which has left more than 3,000 dead in police...