OVERVIEW OF GENDER RIGHTS IN 2016 Investigation by the CHR Regional Offices reveal that family members of EJK victims are affected in various ways by the killings. There were 11 also cases wherein family members or people who were with the drug suspect during the raid or killing were also harassed and violated. WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THE DRUG WAR23 • A woman narrated to the CHR what happened to her live-in partner who was killed in the anti-drug campaign. The police officers forcibly entered their house when they were about to sleep and searched their room. The woman took her 2-year-old daughter and attempted to get out of the room, but a police officer stopped her. He accused her of hiding shabu (crystal metamphetamine) in her daughter’s rectum. The police officer then removed the child’s underwear and examined the child’s rectum. The police also searched and pushed her whenever she resisted, which resulted to multiple bruises on her body. The woman was pregnant at the time of the incident. • Four female minors, who were sleeping at their house, were forcibly taken out of their house and made to ride a police car. The operatives carried high-powered firearms. The minors were brought to the police station. Later, they found out that their three male companions, who were also in the house at the time were taken away and killed by the police. • The police barged into the house of a drug suspect, and dragged him out of their house. His 18-year-old son tried to stop them but a police officer punched him in the face. The son heard him say,“Isama na natin ito!” [Let’s bring this one, too!] but another policeman answered, “Sir wag po! Minor po iyan!” [Sir, don’t! He’s a minor!] The son heard his father pleading for his life as he was dragged away. Then gusnshots were heard. He later saw the dead body of his father. • Five operatives in plain clothes forcefully dragged a woman out of her house in Binondo before killing her husband. Her husband was accused of dealing with illegal drugs. The police had barged into their house without any arrest or search warrant. • In Region II, the PDEA forcibly entered the house of a drug suspect. In the house were the suspect’s children aged 17, 11, and 7, as well as his 17-year-old daughter-in-law and her baby. Also in the house were some of the suspect’s friends. The PDEA ordered the family members to stay inside one room while they searched the house. The father and his companions held at gunpoint, then taken to an area at the back of their house. They heard gunshots; the father was found bloodied and lifeless. The son pleaded with the PDEA agents to help his father but one of the agents told him “tumigil ka diyan at baka ikaw naman ang isunod ko sa papa mo.” [Shut up or else you might end up like your father.] The police also threatened the daughter-in-law that she would be handcuffed and tied up with adhesive tape if she didn’t stop crying. 23 CHR Protection Office Report, 2016.