MANILA, Philippines (AP) – The Philippines’ human rights commission said Monday that it would investigate a report by the military that it has exhumed a mass grave containing at least 30 suspected ...

By Shreya Dasgupta Nearly 70 Filipinos affected by a deadly 2021 typhoon are planning to sue oil giant Shell in its home country of the U.K. for the damages they suffered. Typhoon Rai, known in the ...

The case is the first civil claim to directly link an oil firm’s climate impact to deaths and personal injury in the Global ...

The Filipino Commission on Human Rights and the national police vowed justice for the killing earlier this month of online personality Ebeng Mayor, a transgender man. Commission on Human Rights ...

The oil major says that the suggestion that it had unique knowledge about climate impacts is ‘simply not true’.

The Philippines and the European Union (EU) have renewed their joint commitment to human rights, due process, and the fight ...

The Marcos administration’s human rights agenda is “firmly on track,” the Special Committee on Human Rights Coordination ...

MANILA, Philippines — The overall human rights situation in the Philippines did not change in a clearly sustainable and systematic way despite positive developments in 2024, according to the US State ...

The administration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. initiated some human rights improvements in 2024 but failed to address past and ongoing violations, Human Rights Watch said today in its ...

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has encouraged media practitioners in Kalinga to utilize its Alisto! Alert Mechanism, a ...

Philippine authorities celebrated the country’s removal last week from the money-laundering “grey list” of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), but some civil society groups described it as a ...