MANILA – A 16-member delegation left for Geneva, Switzerland Thursday morning on a mission to present the state of human rights in the Philippines during the...
MANILA–The Duterte administration is ready to defend its “comprehensive” approach to human rights in the Philippines as the Periodic Universal Review of human rights records in...
WASHINGTON –The Trump administration has decided to approve a multibillion-dollar sale of F-16 fighter jets to Bahrain without the human rights conditions placed on the sale...
MANILA, Philippines –A human rights watchdog on Thursday accused the police in the Philippines of falsifying evidence to justify unlawful killings in the government’s war on...
MANILA, Philippines—Rex Tillerson, the businessman US President-elect Donald J. Trump picked to be his State Secretary said on Wednesday that he won’t call the deaths in...
MANILA—Sixteen out of more than 20 police officers from Davao City allegedly linked to the so-called vigilante group Davao Death Squad (DDS) were present at the...
MANILA, Philippines—The new Philippine president uses an expletive to warn key ally Barack Obama not to lecture him on human rights and, in another impromptu speech,...
Despite growing international criticism of his government’s bloody crackdown on illegal drugs, the Philippines top diplomat told world leaders Saturday that the rule of law governs...
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine president said Thursday he will invite the U.N. chief and European Union officials to investigate his bloody anti-drug crackdown, but only if he can question them...
VIENTIANE, Laos—Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took a thinly veiled dig at the United States on Thursday, complaining that colonizers who killed many Filipinos are now raising...