The Philippines recorded the highest number of alleged abductions of human rights defenders (HRDs) in Asia from 2023 to 2024, ...

Violence is common during elections in the Philippines, where the government has deployed 270,000 police and military personnel on Monday to thwart such attacks.

The commission said it reviewed 579 incidents, opens new tab of "drug-related extrajudicial killings" and violence from 2016 to February 2020, 451 of which were allegedly linked to police ...

Christmas week in the Philippines opened with the killing of Sonya Gregorio, 52, and her son Frank Gregorio, 25, by police officer Jonel Nuezca on December 20. Nuezca, a Master Sergeant who was ...

In the latest episode, we talk with Brandon about state violence in the Philippines under the governments of Duterte and Marcos Jr. against social movements and communities. We also talk about how ...

The Philippine government said it would prosecute a police officer over the deaths of a mother and son, after a video of the point blank shooting went viral in social media, prompting renewed ...

The Philippines will send police door-to-door to usher COVID-19 patients with mild or no symptoms into government quarantine facilities. Another Violent Spike in Duterte’s Drug War By Erin Cook ...

On Sunday evening, an off-duty police officer in the rural Philippines publicly executed an unarmed woman and her son, shooting each in the head at point blank range and then firing into their ...

A police officer in the Philippines was arrested and charged after he shot and killed a pair of his neighbors, a mother and son, which was captured on video camera and disseminated online.

The Philippines is among the world’s most mineral-rich countries. Since the passage of a 1995 law allowing 100 % foreign ownership of land, the Philippine government has prioritized mining and ...

The Philippines, which has more gun-related deaths than any other country in Asia relative to its size, needs tougher gun control laws as the number of illegal weapons has topped one million, a ...