Human rights in the Philippines / EU-Philippines relations: Beyond trade and aid?

Since mid-2016, President Rodrigo Duterte's controversial war on drugs has triggered a wave of extrajudicial killings. The current violence reflects longer-term problems, such as high crime rates and a dysfunctional justice system. However, there are still many areas, such as freedom of expression and gender equality, where the Philippines does better than most other Asian countries.

Author: Martin Russell

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EU: EEAS: Philippines and the EU https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/1694/philippines-and-eu_en

EP: EPRS: Briefing, January 2017: EU-Philippines relations: Beyond trade and aid? http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2017/595884/EPRS_BRI(2017)595884_EN.pdf

The Conversation, 10.07.17: Rodrigo Duterte’s first year: a human rights disaster the world prefers to ignore https://theconversation.com/rodrigo-dutertes-first-year-a-human-rights-disaster-the-world-prefers-to-ignore-80442

Chatham House: Audio: Undercurrents, 08.03.18: Duterte’s War on Drugs https://www.chathamhouse.org/file/undercurrents-episode-3-duterte-s-war-drugs-and-european-security

Chatham House: Expert Comment, 15.02.18: In Examining the Philippines’ Drug War, the ICC Takes a Positive but Challenging Step https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/examining-philippines-drug-war-icc-takes-positive-challenging-step

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ICC: Press Release, 07.02.18: Statement of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Mrs Fatou Bensouda, on opening Preliminary Examinations into the situations in the Philippines and in Venezuela https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?name=180208-otp-stat

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