16. February 2022 | Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) highlights that election campaigns in the Philippines are historically marked by violence. They involve “inter-elite rivalry, warlordism, assassination, vote-buying corruption, intimidation...
16. February 2022 | Freedom of Press, Human Rights News
As the coverage of the upcoming elections intensified, so did online attacks on journalists and the press. An upsurge in offensive posts on social media is closely linked to election events according to research by the news site Rappler – for example, during the...
16. February 2022 | Disinformation, Human Rights News
The Digital Public Pulse (DPP) project examined election-related online activities between May and October 2021. Facebook pages, accounts, and groups related to the Marcos and Duterte families form a “supercluster,” according to DPP. In this, the...
16. February 2022 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
On January 13, 2022, the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) released its annual World Report for 2021. In regard to the Philippines the report highlights the ongoing so-called war on drugs, the controversial Anti-Terrorism Act,...
16. February 2022 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News
The number of deaths in the so-called War on Drugs went up again in 2021 – to a total of 545. On January 4, 2022, Rodrigo Duterte said he would never apologize for the deaths. The International Criminal Court (ICC) temporarily halted the emboldened investigation...
21. December 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
On June 10, 2021, a court in Agusan del Sur acquitted 17 human rights defenders and employees of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Some of them had been imprisoned for up to a year and seven months. Only months later (in early December 2021) their lawyers were...
