Thriving Amnesty leaders in their each chosen paths on organizational development, Jepie, Rocky, and Badhong share their vision of a truly integrated Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) framework for human rights and development work. Listen to their experiences as managers who are members of the LGBTI community celebrating Pride in the workplace.
Listen to the stories of Muslim sister-femcees, Miss A & Fateeha of MoroBeats, Amnesty International Philippines featured Artists for Amnesty for 2025.
International Women’s Day episode with Miss A and Fateeha of Morobeats. They talk about their stories as Muslim FemCees in a male dominated industry, and how they use their music to inspire other people and express their personal advocacy on mental health and well-being and anti-discrimination.
Bae Theresa’s Kwentong Tibak, learn the struggles of the Manobo Pulangiyon Tribe and the case of MP1490 Bukidnon.
28 June 2025
Responding to news that a journalist and transwoman human rights defender was killed in Mindanao, Amnesty International Philippines Acting Director Jepie Papa, said:
Amnesty International agrees with the recommendations of the Special Rapporteur who has called for the Philippine Government to “embark on more significant legal, policy and institutional changes to demonstrate its commitment to freedom of expression”.
The Philippine Coalition for the International Criminal Court (PCICC) expresses its strong opposition and grave concern over any proposal or consideration for the interim release of former President Rodrigo Duterte, who remains under active investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity arising from the thousands of killings perpetrated during the so-called “war on drugs.”
Amnesty International Philippines emphasized a deteriorating human rights situation in the Philippines during the last leg of its rolling launch of Amnesty International Report 2025: State of the World’s Human Rights in Manila. Marked by widespread impunity, shrinking civic space, persistent red-tagging of human rights defenders (HRDs) including journalists, indigenous cultural community leaders, and environmental activists, Amnesty International Philippines Acting Director, Jepie Papa, said that these issues are all underscored in the organization’s Human Rights Legislative Agenda for the 20th Congress updated from 2022 national elections following the mid-terms.
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.