A month after a military operation in Negros Occidental left 19 people dead, mishandled evidence, submerged remains, and a frightened community stand between investigators and the truth. Marchel P. Es...

Project Associates promised to rehabilitate Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s image for $144,000 monthly. The operation is falling apart. Inside the confidential proposal that reveals how power brokers attempt t...

A Cebu court found the charges rested on a terrorist designation that did not exist when the alleged acts took place — exposing a prosecution that critics say was never...

ANALYSIS: The Office of the Solicitor General  produced what many legal scholars are calling the most consequential brief in years. It also inadvertently made the case for why the Philippines...

"The world recognizes in Frenchie Mae a journalist imprisoned for doing her job — and in that recognition lies the most damning vindication of her work and cause as a...

None of this means justice is inevitable, or that Dela Rosa will board a plane to The Hague tomorrow. Impunity fights hard on its way out. THERE is a quote,...

Nicholas Kaufman's contract expired and his conduct drew official rebukes — but the real story is that he ran out of legal road. FOR  more than a year, Nicholas Kaufman...

NEWS ANALYSIS:  The Marcos administration has framed its response to Toboso as though the burden of proof rests with the families of the dead, as though the military's declaration of...

When young people — some of them students and children — are killed in military encounters in the Philippine countryside, the questions don't stop at who fired first. In this...

NEWS ANALYSIS: The Communist Party's admission that nine of the 19 killed were not its combatants shifts the burden squarely onto the Armed Forces of the Philippines — and onto...

A joint military-police operation targeting a suspected militant left three members of a Zamboanga City family dead. The man they were looking for was not among them. JUST after 1:30...

A 12-hour running gunfight should leave plenty of evidence: spent casings, trampled paths, bloodstains, bullet holes in trees or structures. These should have been documented by now. What are they...

CONTEXT CHECK: Both sides in the Philippines' communist insurgency have formally committed to follow the rules of war. In Negros Occidental and elsewhere, they have repeatedly broken them. WHEN human....

Nineteen people are dead and hundreds displaced after a military operation in Negros Occidental. The military called it a decisive victory against the communists. Human rights groups are demanding ans...

NEWS ANALYSIS: The ICC handed drug war families something no Philippine court ever did: a real shot at accountability. President Marcos has no excuse not to meet it. NICHOLAS Kaufman...

A ruling against the ICC's jurisdiction on the Duterte case would leave thousands of Filipino families with few good options — and a government that has shown little appetite to...

A ruling against the ICC's jurisdiction on the Duterte case would leave thousands of Filipino families with few good options — and a government that has shown little appetite to...

The 43rd RFK Human Rights Award goes to the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers, whose members have faced killings, red-tagging, and state harassment for defending the poor and the oppressed....

Women journalists in the Philippines are among the most targeted in the world, and the attacks online are increasingly designed to follow them into real life. But they are fighting...

New documentary shows how Ayala Land, colluding with the administration of the late president Noynoy Aquino, grabbed 335 hectares of agrarian reform land in Sicogon, Iloilo, displacing hundreds of sma...

A report by the Commission on Human Rights accuses the Philippine government of violating laws meant to protect children. It documents a pattern of abuse against children in conflict with...

An 11-year-old girl's letter to President Marcos jr. went viral. Behind it is a small shelter in Camarines Sur — and a fight against an official the children say has...

A new report by a UN Special Rapporteur finds that Meta/Facebook, X, TikTok, YouTube and other platforms  activists rely on to expose abuse are increasingly being used to silence them...

A preliminary report by Workers’ Rights Watch paints a grim picture of the state of labor rights in the Philippines. Accountability is practically zero while much-vaunted mechanisms to stop or...

CONTEXT CHECK: Filipinos are struggling with housing, yes. But what the data actually shows is that the Philippines has an inequality problem — deep, structural, and decades in the making...