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Philippine Defeat in UN Security Council Bid Shows Human Rights Record Cannot Be Ignored

The Philippine government finds paths only to new methods of repression and enforces the peace of the grave at home. Human rights monitors, including Karapatan, document a continuing pattern of violence: extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests, and widespread attacks on rural communities. On April 19, state forces killed 19 people in Toboso, Negros Occidental, including civilians standing in solidarity with farmers asserting their land rights.

NUPL demands investigation and accountability for reported IHL violations in Bilar, Bohol

"...the brutal torture and killings of the captured NPA members is a grave breach of international humanitarian law which mandates the humane treatment of captured combatants as prisoners of war. They contradict President Marcos Jr.’s posturing about his government’s supposed pursuit of a “human rights based approach to development” and betray their tyrannical scheme to show no quarters to dissenters."

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