In its October 23, 2025 decision, the PTC held that the interpretation of Article 127, which outlines the withdrawal of a State Party from the Rome Statute, must be consistent with the overall object and purpose of the Statute—to "put an end to impunity and ensure that the most serious crimes do not go unpunished.”
“Killings in the name of drugs. This is really about killings in the name of drugs. So you drug lords out there, get ready because I’ll crush you.”
The international journalism award is named in honor of Elizabeth Neuffer, the Boston Globe bureau chief at the UN, who died while on an assignment in Baghdad in 2003. It is given by the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA).
Regional Trial Court Branch 21 noted the “glaring disparity and difference regarding the identity of the person named in the complaint and the person arrested."
Mere absence of a rally permit may not be used as an excuse to prohibit their exercise.
The Chamber said that while the Defense limits its argument to the fact that Duterte is 80 years old, and his alleged condition based on medical reports, it failed to substantiate “how detention is so detrimental that it justifies his release.”
he International Criminal Court (ICC) said that Rodrigo Duterte's rights as an accused have been upheld, contrary to the claims by the former president's counsel Salvador Medialdea.
The CPP said Malaya was a member of the Central Committee and Political Bureau, and of the Mindanao Commission and served as secretary of the Northeast Mindanao Regional Party Committee. Ka Maria also served as spokesperson of the National Democratic Front in Northeast Mindanao.
"The right to free speech is not absolute; it imposes limitations on
its exercise to ensure that it will not impinge upon the rights of others. It does not protect defamatory statements," the local court declared.
Rural women condemned the Department of Agrarian Reform's complicity in massive land-grabbing by the Villars, Aranetas, Cojuangcos, Ayalas, and foreign investors.
According to Committee to Protect Journalists, as of Nov. 7, thirty-seven journalists and media workers were confirmed dead. Majority of those who died were Palestinians with 32 deaths.
NUPL Chairperson Edre Olalia said that while they did not achieve full legal redress, the decision "can be viewed as a loud warning shot, as it were."
"It is frustrating that government agencies are violating RA 10353. We just want to know if our loved ones are in the custody of Nolcom or not," Eli Capuyan, Dexter's brother, said. "It's been 40 days since the two went missing."
Advocates urged the Philippine government to ban highly hazardous pesticides and support agroecological alternatives.
“When I became a regular worker, I joined the union immediately. The union serves as our voice.”
“In short, we are attacked because we take on cases, clients and issues which many others cannot or will not take on.”
“The signed SIM Registration Law poses problems for privacy rights as the Philippine government is notorious for illegal surveillance and violations of data privacy. The SIM registration can become a vast surveillance network used against the people.”
"For 27 years, we have been deprived of our right to till the land. Why is it that we are the ones being treated as criminals here?"
Ansbert Joaquin maintained that libel should be decriminalized, adding that imprisonment as punishment, if convicted, caused him and his family mental torment.
A day after the May 9 elections, supporters of Leni Robredo, members of election watchdogs and progressive groups hold a symbolic protest in front of the Commission on Elections office in Manila against what they called as the 'dirtiest' election in recent years.
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