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Tuesday, November 11, 2025 - 12:30 AM
Philippine Standard Time:
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 - 12:30 AM
The Commission on Human Rights strongly condemns the President’s public remark claiming to have molested their female domestic worker when he was a teenager. There is no acceptable spin or excuse to justify such statement. Words matter. Women have often been subjects of many forms of violence because such remarks help normalise degrading treatment against […]
The Commission on Human Rights continues to be alarmed over the series of killings happening around the country, with the case of Negros Oriental broadcaster Gabriel Alburo, also known as Kumander Agila on radio, as the newest addition in the death count. Attacks through riding in tandem and in open, public areas continue to be […]
The Commission on Human Rights welcomes the decision of the Court of Appeals (CA) on the case of a drug suspect who the police claimed to have died in a crossfire during a drug buy-bust operation in Antipolo City in 2016. The appellate court later ruled that suspect Joselito Gonzales was a victim of extralegal […]
The killings of Ako Bicol party-list representative Rodel Batocabe and SPO1 Orlando Diaz deserve the strongest condemnation, especially since said lives been senselessly claimed allegedly due to political motivation. This act frustrates the people’s right to choose their leaders in the upcoming elections, and treats a person’s right to life and dignity of no consequence. […]
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) condemns the reprehensible acts committed by a father on his own minor child in the City of Santa Rosa, Laguna recently which was captured on video and uploaded in social media. The disturbing video shows a child hanged upside down to the window grills by an adult male, purportedly […]
It is alarming that the trend of killings continue despite the holiday season. However, regardless of season or motivation, the government must not allow such transgressions against human rights to happen. We urge the government to apply increased vigilance, especially that there are allegations linking the killing to the upcoming elections. CHR-Region V is already […]
The Commission recognizes the intention of the government to address criminality at the barangay level. However, the role of barangay captains is to implement local ordinances and laws and to help the police in assessing peace and order situation in their respective areas. Promoting peace through mediation is also an integral part of the barangay […]
The government is well within its obligation to protect the welfare of its people. However, hamletting as an approach to public safety may result to a number of human rights violations due to the enforced displacement of communities and individuals. Such proposal challenges the people’s constitutional right to liberty and property among others and will […]
The Commission on Human Rights is firm in its position that our security sector, the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines combined, can address acts of lawlessness without the need for martial law. The said declaration is an extraordinary measure that the 1987 Constitution prescribes as reserved only to instances of […]
The Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines’ panel conducting an inquiry to determine the impact of climate change on the human rights of the Filipino people officially concluded its public hearing yesterday, December 12. The first pre-hearing conference was conducted by thePanel on December 11, 2017, while the public hearings began in March, 2018. At […]
The CHR has taken a position from the first instance when the Marawi Siege had began in May 2017 that it believes that the Government has the ability to exercise law enforcement powers to quell any threats without the need to invoke the extraordinary powers of Martial Law and more so now that the Martial […]
The death of Richard Santillan, bodyguard of former Biliran representative Glenn Chong, is unfortunate, especially that it is laced with questions on the circumstances of the crossfire that ensued between the police and Santillan. The Commission on Human Rights urges the government to investigate in the interest of the truth and making perpetrators possibly accountable […]