23. January 2023 | Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
Jose Maria Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), died on December 17, 2022, after being hospitalized in his exile in Utrecht, Netherlands. His death could lead to the resumption of peace talks in the Philippines “and the implementation...
23. January 2023 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
A Quezon City court acquitted on January 9, 2023, ten activists who were charged with perjury by former National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. in 2020. The ten activists of the three human rights organizations (Karapatan, Gabriela, and Rural Missionaries of...
23. January 2023 | Disinformation, Freedom of Press, Human Rights News, News
“Today, facts win. Truth wins. Justice wins,” said Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Rappler-CEO, Maria Ressa, after a court acquitted her and her online news portal of four tax evasion charges on January 18, 2023. The acquittal reduces the open court cases...
15. December 2022 | Freedom of Press, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla denied during this year’s UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Philippines on November 14, 2022, that civic and media spaces in the Philippines are shrinking and described the Philippines...
15. December 2022 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
The Philippine Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) officially launched the new government anti-drug program on November 26, 2022. The program, Buhay Ingatan, Droga’y Ayaw (Take care of life, Don’t want drugs), is intended to take a...
15. December 2022 | Freedom of Press, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, International Institutions
The Philippine government has invited the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, and arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz, to the Philippines for 2023 as part of the United Nations Joint Programme (UNJP). The UNJP is a technical cooperation between the...
