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 ...

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 ...

A human rights watchdog in the Philippines on Monday declared its “full support” for the passage of a proposed internet safety education bill protecting children from online sexual abuse and ...

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 ...

Through the years, the Commission on Human Rights has been hailed for its efforts in looking into human rights violations that are taking place in marginalized and vulnerable areas of the country.

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 ...

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 ...

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' Congress lower house agreed on Wednesday to restore the Commission on Human Rights' annual budget, which had been slashed to just $20 after lawmakers allied to ...