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Tag: Human Rights Watch

  • Human Rights Watch
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    HRW: Human rights situation in the Philippines ‘hardly changed’ under Marcos administration

    By Ivel John M. Santos  |  Jan 12, 2023 11:00 AM

    Attacks and abuses on human rights of Filipinos further proliferated in 2022 despite a new administration under President Ferdinand Marcos, according to the annual report of Human Rights Watch (HRW).

    Human rights, Human Rights Watch, Marcos Jr. administration

  • Categories FACT CHECK Fact Sheet NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Disparity in body count of drug war victims explained

    By VERA Files  |  Dec 13, 2022 2:32 PM

    The Marcos administration has revamped the government’s anti-drug campaign in a bid to focus on demand reduction and rehabilitation of users, as opposed to the all-out war that led to the death of thousands of Filipinos in the Duterte administration’s war on drugs.

    Dahas, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., Human Rights Watch, illegal drugs, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, Philippine National Police, Rodolfo Azurin Jr., Rodrigo Duterte, War on drugs

  • Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Pagkakaiba sa bilang ng katawan ng mga biktima ng giyera laban sa droga ipinaliwanag

    By VERA Files  |  Dec 13, 2022 2:32 PM

    Binago ng administrasyong Marcos ang kampanya laban sa droga ng gobyerno para pagtuunan ng pansin ang pagbabawas ng demand at rehabilitasyon ng mga user, taliwas sa all-out war na humantong sa pagkamatay ng libu-libong Pilipino sa war on drugs ng administrasyong Duterte.

    Dahas, Duterte's War on Drugs, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., Human Rights Watch, illegal drugs, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, Philippine National Police, Rodolfo Azurin Jr., Rodrigo Duterte, War on drugs

  • Categories News

    Rights groups push for ‘immediate justice,’ independent probe on PH human rights abuses

    By Tatiana Maligro  |  Sep 08, 2022 9:37 PM

    Frustrated over the little to no improvement in the human rights situation in the Philippines, Human Rights Watch, along with local human rights groups, urged the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council to issue a follow-up resolution and an immediate investigation into the drug war campaign.

    Human Rights Watch, IDEALS, Karapatan, UNHRC

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    Categories News

    HRW notes ‘deteriorating’ human rights situation in PH; exec seeks international action on ‘major crisis’

    By Ivel John M. Santos  |  Jan 14, 2021 3:54 PM

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) Asia Deputy Director Phil Robertson called on the international community to press the Philippine government to address the “deteriorating” human rights situation in the country as rights abuses continue even during the coronavirus lockdowns.

    human rights situation, Human Rights Watch, Philippines

  • Guevarra, speaking at 44th UNHCR session.jpg
    Categories News THE ICC PROBE Duterte's Drug war

    ​ HR groups question credibility of PH review panel for ‘war on drug’ killings

    By Ivel John M. Santos  |  Jul 02, 2020 9:02 AM

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticized the Philippine government for trying to dissuade independent, international efforts to investigate thousands of unsolved drug-related deaths in the country by creating a “ruse” and “flawed” inter-agency review panel.

    Human Rights Watch, UNHCR44th session

  • Categories Links Top Stories Yahoo

    Aquino fails to end killings of journalists, activists – report

    Jan 31, 2015 1:28 PM

    By JAKE SORIANO CITING the persistence of media and other extrajudicial killings, torture and enforced disappearances, an international watchdog scored the Aquino administration for its poor human rights record in 2014 […]

    Human Rights Watch, Impunity, journalists, killing of journalists

  • Categories Top Stories Yahoo

    Int’l human rights group tags former Tagum mayor behind death squads

    May 21, 2014 10:45 PM

     By KIERSNERR GERWIN TACADENA MACKY Lumangtad, 12, would always hang out with his friends in the famous Freedom Park of Tagum City to play computer games at night. On April […]

    Human Rights Watch, Phelim Kine, Tagum City

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