5. May 2022 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
A regional court in Bacolod City convicted two Philippine Army intelligence officers for the murder of activist Benjamin Bayles on March 31, 2022. In broad daylight, the two men shot Bayles – coordinator of the party-list Bayan Muna and member of the Iglesia Filipina...
14. April 2022 | Human Rights News, Internal Affairs, News
In the light of the upcoming May 9 elections, cases of red-tagging against the opposition – especially presidential candidate Leni Robredo and her supporters – are on the rise. In a statement, the human rights group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan)...
14. April 2022 | Human Rights News, Indigenous People, Internal Affairs
26 of the previous 37 petitioners filed another joint motion for partial reconsideration of the highly contested Anti-Terrorism Act before the Supreme Court (SC) on March 2, 2022. The SC dismissed their last petitions on December 7, 2021 and ruled the law only...
14. April 2022 | Disinformation, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
Philippine presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is heading the opinion polls ahead of the May 9 elections. Election observers have linked this success to a long-standing disinformation strategy. For the past six years, the Marcos family has systematically...
16. February 2022 | Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
The more than 50-year-long armed conflict between the Philippine government and the New People’s Army (NPA), the militant branch of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CCP), is another issue in the current election campaign. During his term in office,...
16. February 2022 | Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) highlights that election campaigns in the Philippines are historically marked by violence. They involve “inter-elite rivalry, warlordism, assassination, vote-buying corruption, intimidation...
