DETAINED Sen. Leila de Lima was named one of the Leading Global Thinkers for 2017 by the Foreign Policy magazine for “openly defying” President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.

The Foreign Policy magazine awarded De Lima the Global Thinker award for the second consecutive year. It named De Lima on its list of Leading Global Thinkers in 2016 for her “vocal opposition” to the unabated extrajudicial killings (EJKs) of suspected drug personalities.

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