Newly Launched Movement: 'iDefend' Opposes Duterte's Campaign

Newly Launched movement that opposed to the new administration's ant-illegal drugs campaign. Newly launched movement that opposed to the anti-illegal drugs campaign of the new administration to stop the drug trafficking in the Philippines. The Anti-illegal drugs activities campaign of President Duterte became the hot trend all over the Philippines. Many of the Filipino citizens reacted and to the war of drugs of President Duterte. The campaign was linked to the vigilante killings in the country. According to a report, A coalition of human rights advocates urged President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday not to make his war on drugs a war on human rights. The Former Akbayan Rep. Walden Bello, was the spokesperson for the newly launched movement that urged the new administration that they opposed for the government's campaign. Visit the next page to read the full article. The newly launched movement was called as the "iDefend," is a movement aimed to show the administration that there were people who opposed its policy of killing drug suspects. In a report, spokesperson Bello said that they were against to Presidents Duterte Anti-illegal drugs campaign as it was the cause of the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines. According to a report of Inquirer.net, August 12, 2016, Friday, the iDefend movement was launched. In Quezon City, around 30 private groups gathered to established the movement to urged the new administration that there are still people who opposed to the war of the President against drugs activities in the country. The recent report shared that Bello was the spokesperson the said movement announced to the public that the spate of killings of drug suspects indicates that the Duterte administration is “simply addressing the symptoms instead of the principal cause of illegal drug use,” he said. The movement urged the president to stop the campaign to stop the extrajudicial killings in the country because many poor families were affected by this campaign. In a report, Virginia Suarez, Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasya chair, announced that the new government was equally responsible for the killings committed by vigilantes. According to a report, the movement said that the Inquirer’s Kill List showed 601 drug suspects had been killed since President Duterte took office on June 30. More than 200 of the killings have been attributed to vigilantes. The movement urged that the victims of the extrajudicial killings were the poor as the study shows that illegal drug use is most prevalent among the poor and underprivileged. Suarez emphasized that these poor victims may have been forced into drugs because of poverty. Furthermore, In Defense of Human Rights and Dignity Movement (iDefend) emphasized the need to deal with the cause of drug addiction in the Philippines—poverty. Thank you so much for sparing a bit of your precious time to read this blog site. You can SHARE this now with your family and friends on FACEBOOK or TWEET it on TWITTER to get others informed about it. You can also like our page on Facebook and visit our site more often for more informative updates that are truly worth a second to spare on.

‘iDefend’: Newly Launched Movement Opposes President’s Campaign

Newly Launched movement that opposed to the new administration’s ant-illegal drugs campaign.

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