Human rights group urges PH to stop red-tagging 

Krixia Subingsubing 01/15/2024

MANILA, Philippines — Before the controversial antiterror law takes effect on January 15, Human Rights Watch (HRW) is urging the Philippine government to stop the harmful practice of red-tagging leftist activists and critics. In their 2024 World Report,…

HRW: Duterte bid to arm civilians ‘another recipe for human rights disaster’

Frances Mangosing - Reporter / @FMangosingINQ 07/01/2021

MANILA, Philippines—A plan to arm civilians against crime would be ”a recipe for another human rights disaster” under Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday (July 1). The New York City-based human rights advocacy…

Human Rights Watch demands release of detained ‘lumad’ in Cebu

Consuelo Marquez - Reporter / @CMarquezINQ 02/18/2021

MANILA, Philippines — Human rights advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on the Philippine government to free the “lumad” (Indigenous Peoples) students and teachers, who were arrested after an alleged “rescue operation” by the…

Rights watchdog on Tarlac murder: Many PH cops ‘simply out of control’

Inquirer.net 12/22/2020

MANILA, Philippines — The murder of a mother and her son by a law enforcer proves that “many members” of the country’s police force are “simply out of control,” an official of the Human Rights Watch (HRW)…

Robredo, US execs explore collaboration in drug war

Jhesset O. Enano - Philippine Daily Inquirer 11/14/2019

  MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Leni Robredo on Wednesday met with US officials for a discussion of possible collaboration in the Philippine campaign against illegal drugs. In a statement issued by her office after the meeting,…

Duterte’s condom joke ‘irresponsible,’ says Human Rights Watch

Inquirer.net 02/17/2018

INTERNATIONAL rights watchdog Human Rights Watch took President Rodrigo Duterte to task for his latest off-color joke telling returning overseas Filipino workers to use birth control pills and not condoms as contraceptives because condoms “aren’t pleasurable.” In…

Duterte’s drug war packs jails to ‘breaking point’ — rights group

08/04/2016

An official of an international human rights group lamented that the “war on drugs” led by President Rodrigo Duterte has further exacerbated the already packed and deteriorating jails in the country. In a statement, Human Rights Watch…

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