war on drugs

Vice President Leni Robredo calls the bloody drug war of President Rodrigo Duterte a “huge failure,” and has not prevented the proliferation of drugs in the country. She shared her findings in a 40-page report with...

SAN JOSE, CA — For these Filipino American activists, these lighted candles represent the thousands of lives snuffed out by President Rodrigo Duterte’s alleged drug war and from other human rights abuses in the Philippines. They sent...

NEW YORK — Dozens of Filipino activists and their allies gathered at the Philippine consulate in New York recently to condemn the recent spate of mass raids and arrests of their counterparts in the Philippines. They said...

Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Teodoro Locsin Jr. made it clear to the international stage that a strong government is better. In his speech at the high-level general debate at the United Nations’ 74th General Assembly,...

by Pat Nabong, ABS-CBN News CHICAGO — These Filipino Americans have lived to tell their stories —- 47 years after the declaration of martial law in the Philippines under the Marcos dictatorship. They want the younger...

The Bern is blazing through Southern California. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders went to Los Angeles over the weekend to hold rallies, and do television appearances. As he pushes his campaign through America’s second-largest city, he reached...

WASHINGTON D.C. – “In the Philippines, Duterte has used his ‘war on drugs’ to justify rampant human rights abuses including these extra-judicial killings and imprisonment of opposition figures… I am especially concerned about the plight of...

PHILADELPHIA — After more than an hour delay, President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his 1.5-hour State of the Nation address on Monday in the Philippines. But human rights defenders who gathered at the Philadelphia City Hall on...

The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland has voted to pass a resolution on Friday that green lights a comprehensive examination of the human rights situation in the Philippines. Despite the Duterte administration’s opposition...

The Philippine Commission on Elections has officially announced the winners of the 2019 Philippine midterm elections. But before we go into that — here are the top candidates Filipino-American voters have chosen. And with the final...