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Duterte said he must destroy small-time street peddlers as well as the big-time drug lords. (Photo: AP)

Philippines' Duterte calls European critics 'crazies'

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have said that Rodrigo Duterte may be overseeing crimes against humanity.

20 March 2017 2:59 PM IST

De Limas life turned in 2008 when she accepted her first government post as chairwoman of the governments independent Commission on Human Rights. (Photo: AP)

Philippines' De Lima: from high-flying lawyer to rights crusader

Lima was arrested on drug trafficking charges she insisted were manufactured to silence her opposition to Duterte's...

24 Feb 2017 9:51 AM IST

President Rodrigo Duterte. (Photo: AP)

Duterte defends drugs war, rejects advice of 'idiot' ex-Colombia...

The former Colombian president Cesar Gaviria warned Duterte that a security-centred approach do more harm than good.

8 Feb 2017 6:43 PM IST

A worker arranges bodies in various stages of decomposition at the morgue of Henrys Funeral Homes in Manila. (Photo: AFP)

Undertakers bear the brunt in Philippine drug war

While there are vocal critics of the drug war at home and abroad, surveys show an overwhelming majority support...

9 Dec 2016 4:48 PM IST

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos pose with the medal and diploma during the Peace Prize awarding ceremony at the City Hall in Oslo. (Photo: AP)

Colombia's Santos accepts Nobel for peace deal

Santos received his Nobel diploma and gold medal for his efforts to end a conflict that has killed 220,000 people and...

10 Dec 2016 9:00 PM IST