Using Holocaust Denial Methods, a Denier of Japan's War Crimes Exploited UN Rights Body to Defend Duterte’s Atrocities
Topacio Disbarment Complaint a Warning to Other Lawyers: You Will Pay for Sexist Remarks
Informal Workers Reel from Impact of Soaring Oil Prices
The Problem with the Autism Care Bill
Unaddressed Crisis: How Abusive Kafala System Traps OFWs as US-Iran War Worsens
Unsafe Abortion Kills, Harms Thousands of Filipino Women but Safe Abortion Website Blocked in PH
IN CONTEXT: Shunichi Fujiki’s record spans comfort women denial, nationalist activism, using methods similar to Holocaust denialism, and…
Residents in the southern Philippines, the bailiwick of Rodrigo Duterte, got an unexpected civic education as Duterte's confirmation…
The arguments for why Duterte trial will happen—and why it should—are overwhelming. But so is the argument that…
Event in Vienna will be livestreamed at 8 p.m. Manila on Wednesday. Organized by the DRCNet Foundation, drug…
The UN, the EU, the diplomatic community take pride in helping to improve the rights situation in the…
The decision allows the high-profile proceedings against the former Philippines president to move forward in his absence. THE…
“I thought we were doing something good,” said Edgar Matobato, one of the hitmen of the Davao Death…
In this video interview (in Cebuano) shot a decade ago, self-confessed Davao Death Squad member Edgar Matobato recounts…
The UN, the EU, the diplomatic community take pride in helping to improve the rights situation in the…
The five-judge panel upheld a January decision from Pre-Trial Chamber I, which had found no good reason to…
The arguments for why Duterte trial will happen—and why it should—are overwhelming. But so is the argument that…
Joel Butuyan, a lawyer for the victims, described a systematic campaign of state-sponsored violence that allegedly resulted in…
If laughter at children’s deaths becomes normalized, then civil society must become louder in affirming their sacredness. By…
The harm the “drug war” did to children extends far beyond those who were killed. It produced a…
The ICC trial of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is the necessary antidote to this contagion of state-sanctioned…
The complaint against lawyer Ferdinand Topacio, filed by fellow lawyer Jesus Falcis, cites Topacio’s lewd remarks as violations…
IN CONTEXT: Migrant groups are raising alarm about the kafala system in the Middle East, which ties Filipino…
Although illegal, hundreds of thousands of women in the Philippines undergo induced and unsafe abortion each year. For…
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Misael Gonzales Jr., a reporter for DZRH, was arrested after a Manila councilor filed a case against him…
The move by the Office of the Solicitor General, praised by press freedom advocates, puts pressure on the…
United Nations human rights experts are demanding the release of Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and human rights…
A new CIVICUS report documents a sweeping pattern of criminalization, torture, fabricated charges, and red-tagging against peaceful protesters,…
Lokalpedia founder John Sherwin Felix challenges a cyberlibel case filed against him over his critique of a government-funded…
The same apparatus of repression bearing down on journalists in the Philippines is also crushing the broader civil…
Five groups demand the cancellation of permits for mining companies found to have damaged the environment as reports…
AS TYPHOON #UWAN #FUNGWONG BATTERS 🇵🇭, here’s a reminder that it is not just the forces of nature…
More nickel mining companies are operating in the Philippines on the pretext that nickel -- a so-called transition…
In cities like Cagayan de Oro, poor Filipinos contend with the impact of the conflict in the Middle…
What deregulation does, structurally and predictably, is erode the conditions necessary for those rights to be fulfilled —…
When pricing systems deepen poverty, they implicate the state's duty to protect, particularly when the state created those…
IN CONTEXT: Migrant groups are raising alarm about the kafala system in the Middle East, which ties Filipino…
If laughter at children’s deaths becomes normalized, then civil society must become louder in affirming their sacredness. By…
The arguments for why Duterte trial will happen—and why it should—are overwhelming. But so is the argument that…
The proposed law, which the Philippine Senate passed recently, is long overdue. But it needs tweaking. By Jon…
EDITORIAL: What is at stake in this anniversary of Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest by the ICC is not one…
A TRIBUTE: What we do matters, in ways that sometimes take years to become visible, but matter nonetheless.…
