Displaced Marawi survivors still long for justice
"It feels as though we have been permanently driven out of Marawi."
Dec
2025
11
Reality Check: Sapat ba ang P500 pang-noche buena?
Sinabi ni Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Cristina Roque na sapat daw ang P500 na noche buena para sa pamilyang may apat na miyembro.
Dec
2025
11
Fisherfolk file class suit over MT Princess Empress oil spill
Authorities prevented fisherfolk from holding a symbolic action outside the court, underscoring what CEED’s Gerry Arances later described as the difficulty marginalized sectors face in making their voices heard.
Dec
2025
11
Victim-survivors lead march for justice, accountability on int’l human rights day
Under the Marcos Jr. administration, Karapatan said that there are 14 enforced disappearances, 134 extra-judicial killings, 822 arbitrary arrests, 577 forced or fake surrenders, more than 70,000 victims of indiscriminate firing and 48,000 victims of forced evacuation.
Dec
2025
11
What Filipino Gen Z first-timers think of COP
“We know that COP will not solve the climate crisis especially when the governments are offering false solutions to the negotiating table."
Dec
2025
10
On international human rights day, groups denounce rights violations and corruption Marcos Jr. administration
On International Human Rights Day, Karapatan leads thousands of protesters condemning the continuing violations of human rights and international humanitarian law under the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. administration. Multisectoral progressive groups express strong criticism over the government’s continued failure to hold high-ranking officials accountable amid widespread corruption in flood control and other infrastructure projects.
Dec
2025
10
Workers decry Marcos Jr. pay hikes for security forces as wages remain frozen
“The government continues to reward institutions long linked to serious human rights violations while workers are left behind.”
Dec
2025
9
Marcos, Duterte face corruption, rights violations
“State-sponsored terror under Marcos Jr. continues to weaponize laws and fully mobilize the state’s armed forces to silence staunch defenders of people’s rights and anti-corruption advocates, to intimidate citizens and activists in protests, and to terrorize communities."
Dec
2025
9
Close to 300 Palawan residents accused of squatting on their ancestral lands
“We will not leave Marihangin. This is where we grew up, where our ancestors are buried. This is where our generation planted our crops and fished.”
Dec
2025
9
Farmer in Leyte pressured into intel role, files CHR case vs 3rd IB for intimidation amid refusal
Rights group Katungod, in an interview, said that this pattern of harassment by the military and other state agents against farmers has been happening on the islands of Leyte and Samar.
Dec
2025
9
For Int’l Human Rights Day, CPJ urges Marcos Jr. to free detained Filipino journalist
Aside from calling on governments across the globe to free imprisoned journalists, they also called to end impunity for those who attack the press.
Dec
2025
9
NPA fighter seeking justice for murdered brother killed in Negros Occidental
Those who knew him rejected the military’s characterization, describing Ka Marcos not as a “notorious” rebel but as a son and brother driven into armed struggle by grief and injustice.
Dec
2025
9
Panay groups warn vs private monopoly in electricity
“Replacing cooperatives with private corporations shifts control of vital infrastructure from local stakeholders to profit-driven shareholders.”
Dec
2025
8
Groups decry ‘state repression’ after LTO seizes protest vehicles
“These vehicles are the drivers’ sole means of livelihood. Impounding them is not just a form of harassment, it is economic punishment.”
Dec
2025
8
Int’l mission confirms disruption of residents’ lives due to US–PH military exercises
Those whose livelihood were affected received meager aid or none at all.
Dec
2025
7
Red-tagged Bicol disaster response group continues helping poor communities
“At a time when accountability must be demanded of those responsible for large-scale corruption and the misuse of public funds, it is unacceptable that humanitarian and community-based organizations are instead being targeted, discredited, and placed at risk,
