23. September 2021 | Human Rights News, International Institutions
The 48th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) started last week in Geneva on September 13 and will be closed on October 8. It is to be expected that the human rights situation in the Philippines will be discussed in Item 10 on October 7. As a...
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
Update September 2021: On September 15, 2021, the pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced its decision: an investigation into crimes against humanity of murder between November 1, 2011 and March 16, 2016 will take place. In 41 pages, the...
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...
