Police have killed more than 6600 suspected drug dealers in sting operations since President Duterte took office in 2016.
Three-year-old Myca Ulpina is one of the most recent and likely the youngest known victim of the Philippines war on drugs.
Amnesty International says Bulacan province has become"the country's bloodiest killing field"after some officers were transferred there from Manila.
Rodrigo Duterte is not a stranger to controversial comments,but his latest one has drawn the ire of human rights activists.
The common thread here isn't just right-wing populism,it's a rejection of people who say:Pay an immediate and visible price for a long-term and invisible good.
Nearly 300,000 police officers and members of the armed forces have been deployed nationwide to prevent violence during the polls.
Human rights groups said the ruling could shed light on allegations of extrajudicial killings.
Maria Ressa still holds Facebook responsible for allowing the scale of false information in the Philippines to grow so fast.
Maria Ressa runs a popular Philippines news site that has aggressively covered President Rodrigo Duterte's administration.
President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered government forces to destroy the Abu Sayyaf after the bombing last Sunday of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral.
"I lifted the blanket. I tried to touch what was inside the panties,"Duterte reveals in a speech on the Catholic Church.