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Officially, 6,229 drug personalities have been killed as of March 2022. [14] News organizations and human rights groups claim the death toll is over 12,000. [15] [16] The Philippine National Police led the drug war through Oplan Double Barrel which began in 2016. [17] It consists of two main components: Oplan Tokhang and Oplan HVT. [18]
Inhalants are commonly used among minors, especially street children. [19] Street children in the Philippines are most likely to be inhalant abusers. [23] Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency statistics of 2014 recorded 40% of minors arrested for drug possession, [24] and drug syndicates use children as drug pushers. [25]
The Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 (IPRA), officially designated as Republic Act No. 8371, is a Philippine law that recognizes and promotes the rights of indigenous cultural communities and Indigenous peoples in the Philippines.
The concept of "human rights," in the context of the Philippines, pertains mainly (but is not limited) to the civil and political rights of a person living in the Philippines. [4] Human rights are a justified set of claims that set moral standards to members of the human race, not exclusive to a specific community or citizenship. [5]
In the Philippines, the government's war on drugs has led to allegations of killings and other human rights violations by the Philippine National Police against drug suspects. [ 51 ] This has led the United Nations Human Rights Council to adopt a resolution urging the Philippine government to set up an investigation into mass killings during ...
Protest by local human rights groups, remembering the victims of the drug war, October 2019. Senator Risa Hontiveros, an opponent of Duterte, said that the drug war was a political strategy intended to persuade people that "suddenly the historically most important issue of poverty was no longer the most important."
The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) is the agency of the national government of the Philippines that is responsible for protecting the rights of the indigenous peoples of the Philippines. [2] The commission is composed of seven commissioners. It is attached to the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
Chapter II, Section 3h of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 defines "indigenous peoples" (IPs) and "indigenous cultural communities" (ICCs) as: . A group of people or homogenous societies identified by self-ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of ownership since ...