After the return of the Marcoses to power in the 2022 presidential election, there were grave concerns about the legacy of the EDSA People
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Leila de Lima free at last; her mission now is to bring Duterte and his minions to justice for falsely imprisoning her
Having been cleared of her third and final fabricated narcotics case, former senator and prominent Duterte critic – Leila de Lima – has at
International Humanitarian Law: Why even wars have rules
In one of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s most notorious one-liners, he told soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in 2018 to,
How President Duterte encouraged a culture of impunity within the Philippine National Police
The Philippine National Police (PNP) have – at times – acted as the judge, jury, and executioner in President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign against criminality.
We should never forget the horrors of Ferdinand Marcos’ dictatorship
On the 21st of September 1972, Filipinos remember the declaration of martial law by then President Ferdinand Marcos. It is an occasion to remind
War on human rights groups: Four activists killed in three days
Further evidence of the Duterte administration’s desire to purge government critics is the bloody military operation known as “Oplan Kapayapaan” (OK; Operation Peace). Led