Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/24
By: Christie Chen
Taipei, Sept. 24 (CNA) Louise Arbour, the Tang Prize winner for the rule of law, blasted Philippine 
President Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drug tactics as “inhumane” and “ineffective” on Saturday and urged the president to reverse his policy.
When asked her opinion of Duterte’s war on drugs at a press conference in Taipei, Arbour, who is in Taiwan to receive the award, noted that she co-signed a public letter to the Philippine president earlier this month.
The letter called on the president “to reverse his current policy, which is not only inhumane, but has been proven completely ineffective in all places where this kind of repression has been put in place,” said Arbour, a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
A former prosecutor, Duterte has been widely criticized by international human rights groups for his heavy-handed tactics in dealing with drugs and other crimes. [FULL STORY]
