Philippines decided to withdraw itself from International Criminal Court. The decision came after ICC in February 2018 announced that it was launching priliminary examination of President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody anti-drug crackdown that claimed lives of nearly 4,000 drug suspects.

• Philippines ratified Rome statute in January 2011 to become a party to ICC.
• Philippines will become the only second country to withdraw from the Rome Statute following Burundi in 2017.  South Africa too attempted to leave in 2016 but its withdrawal was revoked by the UN.