The Philippine government’s own human rights body released this week an important report on red-tagging, its second in six years.…
NEWS ANALYSIS: The Marcos administration has framed its response to Toboso as though the burden of proof rests with the…
When young people — some of them students and children — are killed in military encounters in the Philippine countryside,…
NEWS ANALYSIS: The Communist Party’s admission that nine of the 19 killed were not its combatants shifts the burden squarely…
A 12-hour running gunfight should leave plenty of evidence: spent casings, trampled paths, bloodstains, bullet holes in trees or structures.…
After 19 were killed in Negros Occidental, everyone calls for an investigation. History shows why that may not be enough.…
CONTEXT CHECK: Both sides in the Philippines’ communist insurgency have formally committed to follow the rules of war. In Negros…
Nineteen people are dead and hundreds displaced after a military operation in Negros Occidental. The military called it a decisive…
CONTEXT CHECK: The Commission on Human Right endorsed and celebrated the Philippines’ removal from the UN list of countries with…
NEWS ANALYSIS: A critical ruling due on Monday, March 23, could test whether Philippine courts will keep sustaining charges that…