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House Foreign Affairs Committee Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Hearing on The Human Rights Consequences of the War on Drugs in the Philippines Thursday, July 20, 2017 - 10:00am 2200 Rayburn House Office Building Statement of Dr. VANDA FELBAB-BROWN Senior Fellow The Brookings Institution I am a Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution. However, as an independent think tank, the Brookings Institution does not take institutional positions on any issue. Therefore, my testimony represents my personal views and does not reflect the views of Brookings, its other scholars, employees, officers, and/or trustees. President Rodrigo Duterte s war on drugs in the Philippines is morally and legally unjustifiable. Resulting in egregious and large-scale violations of Human Rights , it amounts to state-sanctioned murder. It is also counterproductive for countering the threats and harms that the illegal drug trade and use pose to society -- exacerbating both problems while profoundly shredding the social fabric and rule of law in the Philippines .

drug users, gay men, transgender women, and female prostitutes, the rate of new infections ... Further, as Central America has painfully learned in its struggles against street gangs, mass incarceration policies turn prisons into recruiting grounds for organized crime. Given persisting jihadi terrorism in the Philippines, mass imprisonment of ...

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