This Group Helped Put Duterte’s Words on Trial at the ICC
Most Filipinos have never heard of No Peace Without Justice. But for nearly a decade, this Rome-based advocacy group quietly helped build one of the most consequential human rights cases in Asian history.
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If The Hague Can’t Help, Can Manila?
A ruling against the ICC’s jurisdiction on the Duterte case would leave thousands of Filipino families with few good options — and a government that has shown little appetite to be the answer.
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What RFK Award to Filipino Lawyers Group Means for Human Rights in the Philippines and Beyond
NUPL, like other legal aid groups before it, was born out of the Philippines’ long struggle for justice and accountability.
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From Online Abuse to Real-World Harm: The War on Women Journalists in the Philippines
Women journalists in PH are among the most targeted in the world, and the attacks online are increasingly designed to follow them into real life. But they are fighting back.
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CONTEXT CHECK: Layers of markups and taxes that push prices as high as 355%, a gutted generics law, kickbacks to doctors, and decades of regulatory failure have made the Philippines one of the most expensive pharmaceutical markets in Asia.
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How Ayala Took Land Away from Poor Iloilo Fisherfolk to Build a High-End Resort
New documentary shows how Ayala Land grabbed 335 hectares of agrarian reform land in Sicogon, Iloilo, displacing hundreds of small fisherfolk.
#ayalaland #agrarianreform #landgrabbing
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The drug war that killed 1000s under Duterte remains a policy under Marcos. A fundamental shift in policy is clearly warranted.
The question is no longer whether harm reduction works. The question is whether the govt is willing to do what it already said it would.
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Hundreds Are Still Being Killed in Drug War. What’s Stopping Marcos Govt from Doing the Right Thing?
A summit in 2024 asked the govt to treat illegal drugs not as a crime problem but as a public health problem. The body count since then suggests it isn’t listening.
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A CHR report accuses the Philippine govt of violating laws meant to protect children. It documents a pattern of abuse that begins at arrest, continues inside government-run facilities, and is sustained by a justice system too broken and too slow to protect them.
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Nearly 25,000 people were apprehended in two days. The police say it’s about discipline. Critics say the numbers reveal exactly what’s wrong with the operation.
Police Nab Thousands in Urban Poor Sweep; Lawyers, Child Rights Groups Call Arrests Illegal, Anti-Poor
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Building on previous documentation by human rights groups, the CHR issues a report this week that says the facilities waiting for these children are still squalid and abusive.
Remulla’s Crackdown: Arrested Children Could End Up in Hell-Holes Like Bahay Pagasa
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From ‘Warfare’ to Welfare: Project Aims to Change the Way Filipinos View and Talk About Drug Use
In a first, the Philippines launches community-led harm reduction modules that recognize the human rights of drug users and impart empathy rather than fear.
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Rights Report Philippines founder and editor Carlos Conde will be speaking at this event tomorrow organized by the Ateneo Human Rights Center.
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The government says young people loitering after 10 p.m. will be arrested. Well-meaning, perhaps, but legally infirm. A child caught out past curfew is supposed to be taken home, not taken into custody. The law treats it as a welfare issue, not a criminal one.
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What prompted this schoolgirl from the Philippines to walk out of her graduation ceremony, marched through the streets of her town in Bicol carrying this sign, and pleaded with President @bongbongmarcos for help?
#ChildSexualAbuse #Education #Rape
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How Will We Read If We Are Being Raped?’
An 11-year-old girl’s letter to President Marcos jr. went viral. Behind it is a small shelter in Camarines Sur — and a fight against an official the children say has made their lives impossible.
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A new report by UN expert Mary Lawlor finds that Meta/Facebook, X, TikTok, YouTube and other platforms activists rely on to expose abuse are increasingly being used to silence them — and the tech companies responsible appear to be paying less and less attention.
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A report by Workers’ Rights Watch paints a grim picture of the state of labor rights in the Philippines. Accountability is practically zero while much-vaunted mechanisms to stop or mitigate the violations, like the European Union’s GSP+, have proven ineffective.
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Filipinos are struggling with housing, yes. But what the data actually shows is that the Philippines has an inequality problem — deep, structural, and decades in the making. Housing is simply where people feel it most acutely.
Affordable housing is a human right.
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Philippines Is Ground Zero for Disinformation. Facebook’s Fix Will Make it Worse.
Meta its own watchdog says Community Notes could backfire in places like the Philippines where disinformation is rampant. That’s because the company is “cosplaying accountability.”
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Facebook Scrapped Its Fact-Checkers. Now Its Own Watchdog Says the Replacement -- Community Notes -- Could Make Disinformation Worse, Especially in the Philippines, the "Patient Zero" of Disinfo
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A major ADB study exposes the depths of poverty among older Filipinos. For one, they rely mostly for income from fragile remittances and unpredictable family support. For another, the country’s pension system is broken; it is ranked nearly last in the world.
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Appeals Court Overturns Rebellion Conviction of Child Rights Advocate
Ma. Salome Ujano’s acquittal is the latest blow to a security framework critics say is built on thin evidence
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#CONTEXTCHECK: The Commission on Human Rights endorsed and celebrated the Philippines’ removal from the UN list of countries with grave violations against children in armed conflict. Here are reasons why that’s problematic.
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HOOKED: What the US Verdict vs Meta, YouTube Means for PH
A US verdict says Meta and YouTube knew their platforms posed addiction risks to children. The Philippines — the world's most Facebook-saturated and top YouTube-using country — has no equivalent protection.
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Decades of policy failure — from the OPSF to oil deregulation — have left ordinary Filipinos with no real shelter from the worst fuel shock in the country’s history.
The Philippines Failed Filipinos Long Before This Energy Crisis Did
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Drug War: How the World Failed the Philippines
OPINION BY CARLOS CONDE: Aside from the belated case at the ICC, institutions of international accountability have been missing in action. The UN came up short. The EU faltered. The ASEAN didn’t even bother.
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