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...

The investigative outfit Whale Hunting, on the heels of significant reporting by Philippine news outlets, reveals a sophisticated international image operation built around the son of a kleptocrat — a...

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...

After a deadly clash left 19 people dead, including two children, soldiers swept through a remote farming community, searching homes and leaving residents too frightened to step outside for days....

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...

ANALYSIS: The fate of the Philippines' most powerful accountability statute – the law on crimes against humanity – is not an irony. It is a diagnosis of the rot in...

"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...

OPINION: When Rodrigo Duterte was useful to deliver to The Hague, Marcos found the mechanism.  When delivering Bato dela Rosa was inconvenient, the mechanism became invisible — and the fugitive...

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,...

CHR investigators, who recently conducted a walk-through at the site of the clash, say coordination with state security forces has been a real challenge. Marchel P. Espina reports. Randy Toto,...

When ASEAN members kill their own citizens, the bloc's political forums look away, its human rights body says nothing, and its founding doctrine of non-interference provides the institutional cover fo...

MANILA — Lian Buan, a senior investigative reporter at Rappler, is joining Human Rights Watch as its new Philippines researcher, an appointment set to be formally announced soon. She will...

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...

A radio news director in Cagayan de Oro published screenshots of a private chat with a city official to document why a promised interview was canceled. Now she faces up...

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...

After 19 were killed in Negros Occidental, everyone calls for an investigation. History shows why that may not be enough. WHEN nine sugarcane farmers were gunned down while eating dinner...

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...

Most Filipinos have never heard of No Peace Without Justice. But for nearly a decade, this Rome-based advocacy group quietly helped build one of the most consequential human rights cases in...

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....

Nearly 25,000 people were apprehended in two days. The police say it's about discipline. Critics say the numbers reveal exactly what's wrong with the operation. IN just two days —...

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...