12. The Commission requests the Committee to call on the State Party to:
a. Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance.
b. Take measures to show that the government is doing everything it can to prevent the
present killings from becoming a widespread, systematic practice.
c. Grant country visit requests of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights
defenders, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, and the
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. The
Anti-Drug Campaign has targeted and negatively affected the poor. As of 15 September
2016, there are 2,035 deaths under investigation by the Philippine National Police, and
1,105 people killed during police operations.15 The Commission has been and is currently
investigating the following cases related to extrajudicial killings: 941 cases during the
Arroyo administration (2001 – June 2010); 531 cases during the Aquino administration
(July 2010 – June 2016); and 144 cases under the Duterte administration (July 2016 – up
to present).