Stopping the Slide : Democracy and Human Rights Decline under Duterte
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From his pulpit at the State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Congress, Duterte once again rebuked human rights activists and their criticism against his violent war on drugs, by saying “your concern is human rights, mine is human lives.” As discussed in the Focus statement on Duterte’s 3rd SONA, his intention was to continue the false narrative that he has articulated before : that human rights defenders are only concerned with the rights of drug addicts and criminals, and not the rights of the (...)
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