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By the end of Duterte's term, the number of drug suspects killed since Duterte took office was officially tallied by the Philippine government as 6,252. [13] Human rights groups, including the ICC, however, claim drug casualties reached as high as 12,000 to 30,000 [14] and the killings reached their peak between 2016 and 2017. [15] [16]
The Philippines was formerly a signatory to the ICC but Duterte canceled the country’s membership after the court began probing his drug war. But under the ICC’s withdrawal mechanism, the ...
President Duterte claimed to recognize poverty as a key problem of the country; the administration's 10-point Socioeconomic Agenda, no.8 is to improve social protection programs, including the Conditional Cash Transfer Program, to protect the poor. [2] President Duterte signed Republic Act (RA) No. 11315, or the Community-Based Monitoring ...
But it was too late to stop a probe the ICC had started in 2016 that was looking into Duterte’s “war on drugs,” a bloody anti-illegal-narcotics campaign defined by mass extrajudicial ...
Philippine former President Rodrigo Duterte addresses supporters at a rally in Davao, Jan. 28, 2024. ... The issue over the ICC is just one of several flashpoints that have come between the ...
As of January 2020, the International Criminal Court confirmed that an investigation into Duterte's involvement with the death squads was ongoing, despite the Philippines having withdrawn from the ICC in 2018, because it continued to have jurisdiction over crimes committed when the country was still a member. Duterte withdrew the Philippines ...
Duterte is limited to only a single six-year term as president and thus was ineligible to participate. [246] Bongbong Marcos was elected as Duterte's successor with the latter stepping down from his position on June 30, 2022. [247] Duterte also said he would still pursue his war on drugs even as a civilian after the end of his presidency. [248]
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) has no authority to probe his predecessor's deadly war against drugs.