President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines should ensure a transparent, inclusive process to select qualified and independent human rights experts as commissioners for the national ...

The chairman of the Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights (CHR), who frequently clashed with President Rodrigo Duterte over the deadly war on drugs, has died after contracting the COVID-19 virus.

The lawmakers’ action against the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) not only undermines the commission’s ability to protect reproductive rights in the Philippines but imperils all of the ...

In the Philippines, after the Marcos era, the late President Cory Aquino issued Executive Order No. 163, s. 1987: Declaring the effecttivity of the creation of the Commission on Human Rights as ...

Rappler, in partnership with Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom - Philippines, tells the story of the late Commission on Human Rights Chairman Chito Gascon’s legacy in the fight for ...

Philippine lawmakers have voted to reduce the annual budget of the Commission on Human Rights to about $20 While cutting funds for drug rehabilitation by about 75% Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV ...

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has turned over its “Karapatang Pantao 101” module to the Department of Education (DepEd), aimed at promoting a human rights-centered approach to basic education.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's allies in the House of Representatives led by Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez have voted to give 1,000 pesos (20 US dollars) to the 2018 budget of the Commission on ...

Philippine legislators have voted to reduce the annual budget for the country's Commission of Human Rights (CHR) to just 1,000 pesos ($20). SEE ALSO: The death of a 17-year-old boy has put a face ...

Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights finds world’s biggest fossil fuel companies accountable for climate damage Days before the national elections, activists urge the incoming government to use the ...