21. December 2021 | Freedom of Press, Human Rights News
Once again, a journalist was murdered. Jesus Malabanan was shot dead at home in his small store in Calbayong City, Samar, in the early evening hours of Dec. 8, 2021. Malabanan had long worked for the British news agency Reuters, and also for The Manila Times, as a...
21. December 2021 | Human Rights News
Sally Crisostomo-Ujano, a child and women’s rights activist and coordinator of the Philippines Against Child Trafficking (PACT), was arrested in Bulakan on November 14, 2021. The arrest was based on a 2006 arrest warrant issued by a court in Lucena City....
21. December 2021 | Disinformation, Human Rights News
Pandemic-related limitations in the campaigning regarding the May 2022 elections will intensify the role of social media. 90% of the Filipino population is active on social media, with 81% using Facebook. In addition, according to a 2017 study, the trust in social...
21. December 2021 | Freedom of Press, Human Rights News
Once again, a journalist was murdered. Jesus Malabanan was shot dead at home in his small store in Calbayong City, Samar, in the early evening of Dec. 8, 2021. Malabanan had long worked for the British news agency Reuters, and also for The Manila Times, as a...
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...
21. December 2021 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) counts a total of 6,215 deaths in the so-called war on drugs between July 2016 and October 2021. However, calculations by human rights organizations as well as the ICC suggest a much higher number of extralegal killings...
