Despite the Philippines’ retention under the Tier 1 category on the 2021 Trafficking In Persons (TIP) Report, the US State Department has issued at least 10 prioritized recommendations and among them is to investigate and convict "complicit officials" involved in the scheme. (via US State...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has called on victims of human rights violations of the New People's Army (NPA) to file cases against the communist group to help end their decades-long reign of terror. media Citing military records, AFP Chief Gen. Cirilito Sobejana said a total of 532...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), has vowed to support the United Nation’s program to promote human rights-based approach in combatting terrorism and illegal drugs in the country. The United Nation’s Joint Programme on Human Rights is the first ever...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is open to the idea of arming anti-crime civilian volunteers but the firearms should only be to defend themselves and not on hunting down criminal elements that include communist rebels. PNP Chief Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo T Eleazar explained that anti-crime...
The Philippine government has successfully repatriated the last batch of overseas Filipinos who were victims of trafficking in persons and illegal recruitment from Syria. The last batch of Filipino survivors of trafficking and illegal recruitment from Syria shortly before their departure in...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday urged the Philippines to ensure that justice is served as it expressed deep concern over reports of two children caught in alleged government operations causing their “untimely and unjustifiable deaths”. UNICEF (via Twitter) “Ending...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Sunday welcomed the reintroduction of a Philippine human rights measure in the United States Congres, saying this development will prove to the Duterte government of the great consequences to its blatant disregard for human rights and rule of law. The...
The Philippine may no longer take back its vote in favor of a United Nations-led inquiry into the alleged rights abuses during the recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, Malacañang said Thursday. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers a speech during the ceremonial signing of new laws in...
The Philippines is apparently reconsidering its vote in favor of the United Nations-led investigation into the alleged war crimes committed during the recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza. President Rodrigo Duterte asks about the "ruckus" arising from the country's vote in favor of a UN-led...
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman and human rights lawyer Jose Manuel “Chel” Diokno will run again in the 2022 elections but he did not confirm which elective post he will seek. Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno (Albert Garcia/Manila Bulletin) Diokno, 60, made the announcement in a...
Lawyer Neri Colmenares believes that the case filed against President Duterte before the International Criminal Court (ICC) is strong enough to convict him for human rights violations over his administration’s bloody war on drugs. In an interview on Teleradyo, Colmenares assured that they...
The announcement made by International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to open an investigation on the bloody war-on-drugs campaign in the country preempts the prerogative of her successor and undercuts the attractiveness of the Rome Statute to States that may be considering...
