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

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 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 ...

Photo courtesy of the Office of the Presidential Human Rights Committee Secretariat Facebook. The Marcos administration’s human rights efforts remain on track. This was affirmed at the 4th meeting of ...

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

Indigenous peoples and rural communities in the Philippines are facing human rights abuses amid nickel mining expansion, according to a report published by Amnesty International on Thursday. Amnesty ...