19. July 2021 | Human Rights News, Internal Affairs, International Institutions
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a Paris-based dirty money watchdog, decided on June 25, 2021, to include the Philippines on it’s “gray list” again. After failing to properly “address strategic deficiencies in their regimes to counter money laundering,...
16. July 2021 | Human Rights News, International Institutions
On June 14, 2021, Fatou Bensouda, the (now former) Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), filed the formal 57-page request for judicial authorization to investigate crimes against humanity in the context of the so-called war on drugs. According to...
16. July 2021 | Human Rights News, International Institutions
Duterte and Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin officially nominated Harry Roque, presidential spokesman, to be elected as a member of the International Law Commission (ILC) of the United Nations (UN) in November 2021 for a five-year term starting January 2023....
21. April 2021 | Human Rights News, International Institutions
The Supreme Court (SC) of the Philippines stands by its decision to withdraw from the ICC. Petitions against this decision have been qualified as “moot” and been dismissed. Salvador Panelo, presidential spokesperson said: “The ICC has no jurisdiction...
10. March 2021 | Human Rights News, International Institutions
At the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council from February 22 to March 19, 2021, the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, Mary Lawlor, presented her report on the situation of human rights defenders in member countries of the UN Humans Rights Council, with the...
10. March 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, International Institutions
Amnesty International UK has issued a report urging the UK government to take more measures for human rights defenders worldwide. The report focuses especially on the situation in the Philippines, Afghanistan, Columbia, Egypt, Libya, Russia and Zimbabwe. In regards to...
