Drug war-related killings of children continue, refuting Marcos Jr’s claims
Drug war-related killings of children continue, refuting Marcos Jr’s claims
In the first six months of the Marcos Jr administration, the Children’s Legal Rights and Development Center documented 12 children killed. In 2023, 20 children died in Caloocan and Manila alone.
By DOMINIC GUTOMAN
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – Despite the pronouncements of lesser violence by the administration of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., a legal center said that children continue to be victimized by the continuous war on drugs.
In a children’s rights forum at the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on March 15, the Children’s Legal Rights and Development Center (CLRDC), through its Executive Director Rowena Legaspi, said that children should not be “collateral damage.”
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