17. February 2025 | "War on Drugs", Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
In its World Report 2025, Human Rights Watch (HRW) stressed that Philippine President Marcos Jr. “initiated some human rights improvements in 2024 but failed to address past and ongoing violations.” Drug-related and extrajudicial killings associated with the so-called...
3. February 2025 | Aktuelles, News
The Aktionsbündnis Menschenrechte – Philippinen (AMP, German Action Network Human Rights-Philippines) is concerned about the alarmingly high number of disappeared human rights defenders in the Philippines since President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office in June 2022....
27. January 2025 | "War on Drugs", Aktuelles, Human Rights News, International Institutions
The International Criminal Court (ICC) launched an appeal on November 29, 2024 to obtain further information from Philippine police officers and other state security forces on the human rights violations in the context of the so-called “war on drugs.” The...
27. January 2025 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
On December 2, 2024, Sarah Abellon-Alikes, an activist of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA), was indicted for alleged violations of the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression of Act (Republic Act No. 10168). An alleged former member of the communist armed...
27. January 2025 | Aktuelles, Freedom of Press, Human Rights News
The decision of the internet company Meta to stop working with fact-checkers on its social media platforms Facebook and Instagram in the US has also raised concerns among journalists and civil society organizations in the Philippines. In a statement on January 11,...
27. January 2025 | "War on Drugs", Aktuelles, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
On December 18, 2024, the so-called quad committee of the Philippine House of Representatives presented its first progress report on a joint investigation over the past months into the links between illegal drug trade, Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs) as...
