Sex and World Peace: Where are the women during war and peace? Direct Violence. We have mass atrocity crimes that are so serious - the gravity is so bad that you can't really wrap your head around it. If you're talking about law, these are the crimes that are there. [Ito yung] highest na antas. Crimes against humanity. ​CHR mentions this all the time, EJK. Ano ibig sabihin? If you're saying that EJK in connection with the drug war is a crime against humanity, what exactly do you mean? Anyone? How do you understand it? - - Atty. JV Abrina, CHR Region X: Crimes against humanity in the regime of IHL - while genocide has a technical definition under UN rights regime where mass killings for drug related operations technically not under strict definition of crimes against humanity, Stanton wrote about stages of genocide. While EJKs would not fall under genocide in legal sense, if we follow Stanton's definition, from what CHR gathers from the field, the markers of Stanton's stages of genocide are apparent. Atty. Rommel Daguimol, CHR CAR: ​You are taking them away from the protection of law, it would constitute drug war as crimes against humanity. Leah Barbia, GEWHRC: Rape is a crime against humanity, tinatanggalan mo ng dignidad yung tao, right to life, right against torture. including rape. Alright, so we have the legal perspective, IHL, or targeting a particular group of people, and you’re looking at it from the human rights approach. The definition of crimes against humanity targets civilian population. And it happens at all times, not only during times of war. You do not need a wartime context to say that crimes against humanity are happening. The clear indicator is you are targeting a civilian population. Dun sa stages of genocide, mas madaling maprove ang crimes against humanity Page 15​ of 62