Philippines

Philippines Extra-Judicial Killing Project Launches

New IWPR initiative seeks to build consensus over what is a deeply divisive issue.

Senate Should Probe Mindanao Homeland Deal

It should not buy government assertion that because it no longer wants the agreement in present form, it's a dead issue.

Giants Among Men

Philippine Project Acclaimed

Web-based human rights reporting initiative nominated for major new media award.

Philippines Massacre

With mass killings in Maguindanao, Philippines now ranks as world’s most dangerous country for journalists. Photographs by Jes Aznar (27-Nov-09).

Note to Readers

Mindanao's Forgotten Refugees

Last year they made up the largest group of newly internally displaced people in the world, but their plight has received little attention.

Accusations Fly in Wake of Suarez Family Killing

Army and rebels charge each other with brutal murder of couple and their four young children.

A Nation of Short-Term Workers

Seven out of ten Filipinos are working for low salaries in casual employment.

Military Accused of Negros Oriental Civilian Killings

Activists point finger at two battalions leading the government’s counter-insurgency campaign in the region.