human rights
On International Human Rights Day
December 10, 2025
The Marcos Jr government is losing even its token displays of respect for human rights as the country is plunged deeper into a worsening national crisis.
The Long Game of Development
December 8, 2024
The current era remains fundamentally neoliberal in essence, agenda and practice – state power over the economy is still systematically wielded for the benefit of a few. In particular, the so-called market reforms that have made capitalist elites so prosperous remain in place.
Human rights in Asia: In the flashpoint of crisis and war
May 3, 2024
The onslaught of imperialism is relentless and brutal, and the sufferings of the working people are unimaginable.
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.
IBON Executive Director on Pres. Marcos Jr’s meeting with US Pres. Biden
May 2, 2023
IBON Executive Director on Pres. Marcos Jr’s meeting with US Pres. Biden
Marcos Jr administration doesn’t uphold the economic rights of Filipinos
December 10, 2022
The Marcos Jr administration entered its sixth month in office failing in its responsibility to uphold economic, social an cultural rights
Gov’t fails to convince int’l community of improved human rights situation in PH
November 15, 2022
At the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 4th cycle of the Universal Periodic Review, many countries expressed concerns about ongoing human rights violations in the country and the Philippine government’s inadequate responses to recommendations made in the last cycle in 2017.
PH gov’t violated social and economic rights during and after COVID-19
November 14, 2022