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 | Freedom of Press, Human Rights News
Since the official start of the presidential election campaign on February 8, 2022, attacks against journalists and news sites have increased, making neutral reporting more difficult. Restrictions on news coverage affect public discourse to inform voters about the...
14. April 2022 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News, International Institutions
The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) calls on foreign governments to impose Magnitsky sanctions on Philippine officials. Such sanctions allow states to punish individuals who share responsibility for human rights abuses in the...
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...
18. February 2022 | Human Rights News, International Institutions, News, Press release
On February 17, 2022 the European Parliament (EP) adopted another Urgency Resolution on human rights situation in the Philippines (627 votes in favour, 26 against and 31 abstentions). In the six years under Dutertes presidency, there have now been five Urgency...
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,...
