Under a new initiative announced by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), drug-free residences will be marked with stickers saying something like “Hey, no need to worry. There are no drug users here.”
Interior Secretary Mike Sueno on Thurs explained that it was a “nonviolent and encouraging” strategy to fight illegal drugs.
“The stickers will urge families as well as their neighbors to keep their neighborhood drug-resistant. It’s a non-violent and encouraging approach, in fact a positive reinforcement,” Sueno said in a report by ABS-CBN News.
Meanwhile, homes without stickers will be “the subject of interventions” by authorities. Memebers of the households will be “encouraged to come clean and support the government’s anti-drug campaign.”
According to CNN Philippines, the project is met with criticism from human rights group Amnesty International.
The group pointed out that the sticker campaign can be used against innocent people. It was also calledan invasion of privacy.
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