THE HUMAN RIGHTS STRUGGLE IN THE PHILIPPINES

THE NEW PRESIDENT

• This all started when president Rodrigo Duterte was elected on June 30th, 2016
• This leader promotes mass killings of suspected criminals to fight the war on drugs
• He also has policies limiting sexual education which is leading to one of the worlds largest HIV epidemics

THE WAR ON DRUGS

• Rodrigo publicly praises the Idea of extrajudicial killings of suspected drug users/ dealers
• This led to thousands of killings by police who claim it is self defense, however no details or efforts are being made to investigate these deaths.
• As a result, people are losing their rights as humans to a fair trial

HIV EPIDEMIC

• Because of the lack of sexual education in this country, they are now having the largest HIV epidemic in years
• Young men are scared to buy condoms because of the pharmacists reaction
• Govt. policies limit educational efforts on HIV prevention and create obstacles to condom access which is the number 1 HIV prevention

THE OUTCOME

• Now there is an alarming decrease rate of population in the Philippines
• The U.S. Now is refusing to help fund the Philippines poor country to aid civilians as a result of their govt. taking away basic constitutional rights which the U.S. Strongly believes in
• This could also have an affect on the U.S. , we have many immigrants from all over which means they could come in and bring the HIV with them

ARTICLES

• Every article I read was bias against the Philippines and wanted change
• All articles were bias by omission, word choice, statistics, placement, photos, and word choice
• Sources I used; www.hrw.org, and www.worldbookonline.com