Marcos Jr government rightly called out at UN for its human rights abuses

June 18, 2025

STATEMENT

The Marcos Jr administration is getting the international attention it deserves. Despite human rights posturing, it is a serial violator like the Duterte government before it.

Impunity and underdevelopment under Marcos Jr

June 14, 2025

When populists take power, the people become fodder for self-serving ambition, and our goals for development and human rights are, at best, afterthoughts. At worst, they’re trampled on for being inconvenient obstacles to personal wealth and power. The spectacle of political theater and intentional delay of the vice-president’s impeachment trial in the Senate confirms institutional […]

Hear the cry of our mothers

August 30, 2024

August 30 is the International Day of the Disappeared. I can’t help but recall my visit to Argentina this year.

Global victims of US military aggression

July 6, 2024

US’ military interventions globally range from direct military actions to covert operations to military support for client states. Lasting from days or weeks to over many years, these result in significant loss of life.

Victims of US military aggression

July 6, 2024

Defend ESCR, repeal the Anti-Terrorism Act

July 3, 2024

Sustaining the ATA belies the Marcos administration’s posturing as a human rights champion.

Stop militarizing farm communities; support green producers–IBON

June 22, 2024

The government should be held accountable for the recent attack against farmer leader Ronnie Manalo and the long-standing militarization of SJDM farming communities that undermines not just the right to till but also the right to food security.

5 marks of a crumbling democracy

July 20, 2023

The Marcoses personify the worst aspects of Philippine politics. And Marcos Jr is levelling up these anti-democratic features in the 21st century.

Rights defenders urge the United Nations (UN) anew to investigate human rights violations amid worsening economic crisis

July 1, 2023

Delegation members of the Philippine Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Watch network are in Geneva to report continuing rights abuses and lack of accountability amid a worsening economic crisis under the first year of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s presidency.