CONTEXT CHECK: The Commission on Human Right endorsed and celebrated the Philippines’ removal from the UN list of countries with…
Dead bodies, damaged lands, and the cost of getting used to everyday impunity JAKE IS 17. One day in February,…
IN CONTEXT: Migrant groups are raising alarm about the kafala system in the Middle East, which ties Filipino workers to…
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…
In this video interview (in Cebuano) shot a decade ago, self-confessed Davao Death Squad member Edgar Matobato recounts a grisly…
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…