On June 24, 2024, the Muntinlupa Regional Court acquitted Philippine opposition politician and former senator Leila de Lima of the third and final charge of conspiracy to traffic drugs. The court’s decision ended a trial that lasted around seven years, of which...
On May 8, 2024, the Philippine Department of Justice (DOJ) filed charges against 27 former and active members of the organization Community Empowerment Resource Network (CERNET) for alleged violations of the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act of 2012...
On May 29, 2024, as part of the 2nd Franco-German Human Rights Gathering, the Manila-based embassies of Germany and France called on the Philippine government to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance...
In a decision dated May 8, 2024, the Philippine Supreme Court (SC) declared so-called “red-tagging” (i.e., branding individuals or organizations as “terrorist”) as a threat to a person’s right to life, liberty, and security. The...
The US Department of State’s report on the human rights situation in the Philippines in 2023, published on April 22, 2024, found that human rights violations continued to occur under the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Furthermore, the annual...
A few days after the US State Department published its report, Amnesty International presented its annual report “The State of the World’s Human Rights” on April 23, 2024. The report underlined that drug-related killings or extrajudicial killings in the context...