On this edition of Century of Lies: Human Rights Violations in the War
on Drugs. The global drug war has become a pretext for systematic
human rights violations and state violence, including extrajudicial
executions, torture, arbitrary detention, and crimes against humanity.
The NGO No Peace Without Justice held a panel discussion recently
entitled \"Accountability for Human Rights Violations committed in the
name of the \'War on Drugs\',\" as a side event at the Sixtieth Session
of the UN\'s Human Rights Council. The event examined accountability
mechanisms by linking the ongoing ICC prosecution of former Philippine
President Rodrigo Duterte with recent U.S. military strikes on
ostensibly civilian vessels in the Caribbean, and explored how
international law can protect both direct victims and the populations
in whose name such violence occurs. We hear portions of that
discussion including remarks by Niccol Fig Talamanca,
Secretary-General of No Peace Without Justice; Gilbert Andres, Lawyer
for victims of Duterte\'s war on drugs and Executive Director of the
Center for International Law; and Dave Borden, Executive Director of
StopTheDrugWar.org and DRCNet Foundation.