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Philippines: ‘Drug War’ Devastates Children’s Lives

Karla with her brother Robert and their cousins spend their day near the Marketplace mall in Kalentong, Mandaluyong City, in February 2019. They were looking for her brother John, who would often go missing~ © 2019 Carlo Gabuco for Human Rights Watch
Kyle in his room in Tondo, Manila, in February 2019~ © 2019 Carlo Gabuco for Human Rights Watch

Kids Suffer in President Duterte’s Brutal Campaign

The Philippine government’s brutal “war on drugs” has devastated the lives of countless children. “Collateral Damage: The Children of Duterte’s ‘War on Drugs” features stories on the plight of several children who have suffered from the emotional, psychological, and economic impacts of the “drug war” violence.

“Angle” 6 the children of “Benigno Mercado,” painting on the floor of their house in Payatas, Quezon City, in February 2019~ © 2019 Carlo Gabuco for Human Rights Watch
Children cover their noses from the smell during a mass burial on January 24, 2017, of unclaimed bodies in a cemetery in Navotas, a city in Metro Manila that has been hard hit in the “drug war.”~ © 2017 Carlo Gabuco for Human Rights Watch

The administration of President Rodrigo Duterte should not only end the violence but provide the necessary services to mitigate the damage that abuses by the police and police-backed vigilantes have caused children who have lost parents and other family members, or witnessed extrajudicial killings, Human Rights Watch said~ © 2019 Human Rights Watch

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