21. June 2024 | "War on Drugs", Aktuelles, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
On May 22, 2024, the Human Rights Committee of the House of Representatives of the Philippines launched an inquiry into the drug-related killings or extrajudicial killings in the context of the so-called “war on drugs” under the term of former President...
21. June 2024 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
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...
21. June 2024 | Aktuelles, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
The passing of a new ordinance (Administrative Order 22/AO22), which is intended to set up a new special committee to improve the human rights situation in the Philippines, has met with increased criticism from civil society and the government opposition. Former...
21. June 2024 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, International Institutions
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...
21. June 2024 | "War on Drugs", Aktuelles, Human Rights News
The Philippine Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on May 9, 2024, that it is preparing a legal brief analyzing various legal options for the issuance of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC). This initiative came against the backdrop of former...
21. June 2024 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
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...
