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Taking note of the government’s “refusal to cooperate with the international human rights mechanisms” and the ongoing investigations of EJKs by the International Criminal Court, the Committee prods the Philippines to put an end to EJKs of suspected drug offenders. It has recommended nine steps toward ending the killings.

The UNHRC said they are concerned at the “reports of increased crackdowns, including in the context of the government’s counter-terrorism and anti-illegal drug operations, on human rights defenders, activists and other civil society actors to discourage them from carrying out their legitimate activities.”

Legal challenge against Nicola Sturgeon's ministers begins with feminist group pushing for trans reforms to be quashed

HISTORICAL REVISIONISM has long been an issue in the country, even before Ferdinand Marcos Jr. assumed the presidency. A team of scholars did academic

INQUIRER.net stock imagesA Philippine delegation taking part in the upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council has urged the Marcos administration to be truthful, saying that “nothing short of an honest admission of the human rights situation in the Philippines would make [it] believable in the eyes of the world.”

It seems like every day angry mobs are trying to 

UNIONISTS disturbed a key council meeting to complain about an elected member displaying a Yes flag in their own home – with one even suggesting…

Dissent is ostracized and criminalized to isolate those who are defying and challenging the powers that be.

Martial Law survivors on Wednesday asked President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to acknowledge the alleged abuses committed under the reign of his father, the late President Ferdinand Marcos Sr.

Barcenas, Paredes: Don’t forget Martial Law