Iloilo City – Amnesty International Philippines, during its press conference in Iloilo City on Friday, raised serious concerns over what it calls “multiple burden” faced in the Visayas due to the continuing repression of human rights defenders and worsening climate-related disasters.
TikTok is failing to address serious risks of harm to young users’ mental and physical health almost 18 months after Amnesty International highlighted these risks in a groundbreaking report. Ahead of the 2025 Mental Health Awareness Week, Amnesty International asked TikTok what changes the company had implemented since then. TikTok’s response listed familiar ‘well-being’ measures, most of them already in place when the research was conducted and failed to acknowledge the app’s “rabbit hole” problem. It also failed to produce evidence of any new targeted measures to address it.
Israel must immediately end its devastating siege on the occupied Gaza Strip which constitutes a genocidal act, a blatant form of unlawful collective punishment, and the war crime of using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare, said Amnesty International, marking two months since Israel reimposed a ban on the entry of aid and commercial goods into the Strip on 2 March 2025.
“Red-tagging” – the public vilification of human rights defenders and other targeted groups and individuals as alleged members and clandestine recruiters of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) – continued. This was despite a Supreme Court ruling in May that “red-tagging” threatens a person’s life, liberty and security. UN experts, including the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, made repeated calls on the government to denounce and penalize the practice.
The Trump administration’s anti-rights campaign is turbocharging harmful trends already present, gutting international human rights protections and endangering billions across the planet, Amnesty International warned today upon launching its annual report, The State of the World’s Human Rights.
Global executions hit their highest figure since 2015, as over 1,500 people were executed across 15 countries in 2024, said Amnesty International today as it released its annual report on the global use of the death penalty.
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This report is the result of the collective work of young Filipino human rights defenders.
On 6 February 2025, United States President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order authorizing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan. This Executive Order is intended to stop the ICC from undertaking its independent mandate. It also poses a significant threat to the ICC and its staff. UN experts strongly condemned the move, calling it “an attack on global rule of law” that undermines international justice.
Responding to former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s scheduled first appearance at the International Criminal Court, Amnesty International’s Southeast Asia Researcher Rachel Chhoa-Howard said:
Responding to news that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested by Philippine authorities on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against him for the crime against humanity of murder in relation to killings in the “war on drugs”, Agnes Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said:
Amnesty International is deeply concerned about the increasing misuse of counter-terrorism laws by the Philippine government to crack down on development, humanitarian and human rights organizations. The administration of President Bongbong Marcos Jr must put an end to the targeting of these organizations with problematic laws such as the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 and the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act of 2012. The government must create an enabling environment for them to be able to carry out their activities without fear of reprisal. The government must also end the deadly practice of red-tagging; as a first step, it should dismantle the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict that has been leading and perpetrating this practice.