“The day of reckoning is coming for Duterte and others.” On March 5, 2018, the Duterte government announced its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. On March 16, 2018, it formally submitted its Notice of Withdrawal through a Note Verbale to the United Nations Secretary-General’s Chef de Cabinet. These prompted the filing of petitions questioning …
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The ICC and Duterte, the next phase
“The International Criminal Court can only intervene where a State is unable or unwilling genuinely to carry out the investigation and prosecute the perpetrators.” The victims of the war against drugs inflicted by the Duterte administration on the Filipino people cry out for justice. Thousands have died from this war; many families have been affected. …
Magic in Dean Merlin’s Classroom
To paraphrase the good Ambassador, Dean Merlin may ‘have confused us all in class, but as we learned later as we practiced our professions, all he did was sharpen our minds’ Dean Merlin Magallona, who died on New Year’s Day at 87 years of age, spoke in a monotone, a voice that was flat and …
Tony La Viña 