20. November 2022 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News, Internal Affairs, International Institutions
The UN Human Right Council (UNHRC) reviewed the Philippines’ compliance with the UN human rights conventions during the 4th cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on November 14, 2022. In the UPR process, UN member states made recommendations on how to...
20. November 2022 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
According to the Philippine National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), 59 lawyers were killed during former President Rodrigo Duterte’s term in office (2016-2022). The UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Diego García-Sayán,...
20. November 2022 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
In the last session of the UN Human Rights Committee, which monitors member states for compliance with the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Philippine Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla defended the so-called “red-tagging” of government...
20. November 2022 | Human Rights News, Internal Affairs, International Institutions
In its October 2022 report, the UN Human Rights Committee expressed its concerns about human rights violations and extrajudicial killings in the Philippines. The committee criticized especially the controversial Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020 for containing...
20. November 2022 | Freedom of Press, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
The recent murders of journalists Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa in October and Reynaldo Blanco in September 2022 emphasized the ongoing climate of violence and impunity in the Philippines. Both journalists were vocal critics of the current as well as the...
24. October 2022 | Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
After more than 80 days of waiting, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced on September 27, 2022, the nomination of Richard Palpal-latoc as the new chair of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and Beda Angeles Epres as the first of the three new CHR commissioners,...
