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If laughter at children’s deaths becomes normalized, then civil society must become louder in affirming their sacredness. By Anna Abelinde…
The arguments for why Duterte trial will happen—and why it should—are overwhelming. But so is the argument that a conviction…
“I thought we were doing something good,” said Edgar Matobato, one of the hitmen of the Davao Death Squad. He…
One day in June 2016, a trusted friend – a priest – contacted me and asked me for a favor.…
Weeks before he died in May 2024, Father Amado Picardal wished that the feud between the Marcoses and the Dutertes…
The harm the “drug war” did to children extends far beyond those who were killed. It produced a generation of…
The ICC trial of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is the necessary antidote to this contagion of state-sanctioned murder. THE…
In this episode of #OpenTalk, journalist Carlos Conde interviews Ken Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch and author…
Based on the government’s own official statistics (as contained in the 2017 Accomplishment Report released by Duterte’s Presidential Communications Office…