MANILA, Philippines — A new damning report on the human rights abuses by the Duterte administration is expected to ramp up the pressure on the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is close to wrapping up its preliminary examination into crimes against humanity allegedly committed by President Rodrigo Duterte and his allies in the past five years.

The report by Investigate PH—an international coalition of civil, political and legal organizations—found, among other things, that the human rights situation in the Philippines has only gotten worse since the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights first flagged brazen abuses in the country in June last year.

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These abuses, they said, were compounded by the police and military being the perpetrators themselves of grave violations, and the government’s counterinsurgency task force orchestrating “political repression and militarizing governance.”

Even the paltry investigations that do exist are neither “impartial nor independent,” the report said, as state forces themselves collude to obstruct justice.

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