A severed head was found in a vacant lot in Barangay Cansojong, Talisay City, Cebu over the weekend. Lawmen are determining if the severed head belonged to that of a woman who was reported missing by her relatives. It was found by a scavenger past 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 11. A few hours later, a...
Residents of Pook Malantic in Barangay UP Campus, Quezon City, formed a human barricade on Wednesday, July 8, fearing demolition after personnel and a private truck arrived with materials to fence a rental housing project. The residents linked arms to block the entry of the truck and personnel,...
Vietnam widened its lead over the Philippines in terms of gross national income (GNI) per capita as the Southeast Asian neighbors both aspire to attain the World Bank’s upper-middle-income-country (UMIC) status. A World Bank board report dated June 18 and disclosed last Monday, June 29, showed...
The Philippines scored below the regional average in the World Bank’s latest Human Capital Index Plus (HCI+), underscoring persistent gaps in health, education, and employment outcomes despite outperforming the average for lower-middle-income countries (LMICs). In an April 2026 human capital...
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has expressed confidence that there will be a court conviction once it filed the case of human trafficking against former congressman Mike Defensor in connection with the raided KTV bar and a hotel in Pasig City. The raid was conducted two months ago and...
CEBU CITY – A member of an influential political family in Cebu alleged that his rights were violated when he was arrested and detained last week. Byron Garcia, brother of former Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia, is considering filing charges after he was allegedly denied due process and suffered...
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s Expanded Pambansang Pabahay para sa Pilipino Program continued to deliver new homes to Filipino families as the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development and Pag-IBIG Fund turned over house-and-lot units at Nuvista Homes Lipa to Pag-IBIG Fund...
For most artists, a tour stop is just another city on the calendar. For Danny O 'Donoghue, Manila feels like something else entirely. "It feels like coming home every time," the The Script frontman said during a packed media conference last week as he returned to the Philippines to promote the...
A network advocating evidence-based drug policies rejected Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano’s description of the Duterte administration’s anti-illegal drugs campaign as a “human rights campaign,” saying the bloody crackdown was marked by violence, fear, and impunity. In a statement...
Officials from the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development and Pag-IBIG Fund conducted a site inspection and ceremonial turnover of housing units under President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s Expanded Pambansang Pabahay para sa Pilipino Program in Cabuyao, Laguna, on Thursday, May 21....
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said the United Nations (UN) is unlikely to take action on a written statement submitted by the International Career Support Association (ICSA) and circulated by the Human Rights Council (HRC), describing the group’s allegations as “baseless claims.” In...
ILOILO CITY – Amnesty International Philippines is alarmed over alleged growing impunity in the Visayas and insignificant progress in addressing human rights concerns. “What we are witnessing is the normalization of violence and impunity. Communities are displaced, human rights defenders are...
