https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/philippines
Human Rights Watch report on the state of human rights across the world at the end of 2023 includes an assessment of the continuing plight of pro-rights groups in the Philippines:
“The human rights situation in the Philippines remains dire amid extrajudicial
killings, attacks against political activists and journalists, and abuses committed during the armed conflict with the 54-year-old communist insurgency. The
government has increasingly constricted democratic space by using the justice
system to target leftist activist groups.”
While the number of extra-judicial killings has fallen, the current government led by Ferdinand Marcos Jr refuses to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in its investigation into possible crimes against humanity committed in the context of Rodrigo Duterte’s “drug war” so that , more drug-related killings occurred in the first year of the Marcos administration than in the Duterte administration’s final year.
Aside from the perpetuation of Duterte’s ‘drug war’ the deadly pursuit of activists, trade unionists, and journalists has continued. The policy of “red-tagging” continues against these groups and other activists including the victimisation of environmental defenders, indigenous leaders, teachers, and students.?
Read more: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/philippines