Philippines

• Abduction 21
• Access to procedures 2
• Acehnese 1
• Airports 2
• Animist 5
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 34
• Armed forces / Military 14
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 65
• Assemblies of God 9
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-seekers 1
• Baptist 10
• Border conflict 2
• Catholic 11
• Ceasefire 3
• Child labour 33
• Child prostitution 20
• Child soldiers 28
• Children's rights 43
• Children-at-risk 20
• Chin 1
• Christian 11
• Civil and political rights 1
• Combatants / Former combatants 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
• Conflict situation 2
• Corruption 21
• Coup d'état 2
• Criminal justice 8
• Death penalty 4
• Death squads 4
• Demobilization / Disarmament 1
• Democracy 3
• Deportation / Forcible return 2
• Disappeared persons 43
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 16
• Domestic violence 3
• Drug trafficking 8
• Economic, social and cultural rights 14
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 18
• Emigrants 1
• Episcopalian 4
• Equality before the law 2
• Evangelical 2
• Extrajudicial executions 67
• Extreme poverty 1
• False documents 1
• Family reunification 1
• Forced labour 32
• Forced marriage 2
• Forced relocation 2
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 31
• Freedom of assembly and association 44
• Freedom of conscience 2
• Freedom of expression 223
• Freedom of information 50
• Freedom of movement 20
• Freedom of religion 44
• Freedom of speech 18
• Gang related violence 4
• Gender discrimination 20
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Generalized violence 3
• Good governance 2
• Group / Prima facie determination 1
• HIV and AIDS 6
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 7
• Human rights activists 19
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 27
• Human rights monitors 4
• Humanitarian assistance 5
• Igorots 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigration Detention 3
• Impunity 25
• Independence of judiciary 5
• Indigenous persons 27
• Internal armed conflict 18
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 32
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 7
• International protection 3
• Jehovah's Witness 1
• Jew 1
• Kachin 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 7
• Livelihoods 2
• Maternal and child health care 1
• Methodist 10
• Migrants 7
• Military law 2
• Military operations 5
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 6
• Minorities 17
• Minority rights 5
• Mon 1
• Mormon 10
• Moros 5
• Muslim 18
• Non-state agents of persecution 1
• Peace agreements 6
• Peace process 11
• Pentecostal 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 12
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 7
• Persons with disabilities 11
• Police 21
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 3
• Political situation 4
• Pre-trial detention 10
• Prison or detention conditions 18
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 4
• Protestant 8
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
• Public health 5
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee identity documents 2
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Refugees 5
• Reintegration 1
• Religious discrimination 23
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 11
• Returnees 2
• Right to education 11
• Right to employment 8
• Right to health 3
• Right to justice 1
• Right to registration at birth 2
• Right to self-determination 2
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 13
• Safe country of origin 2
• Safe third country 1
• Security forces 12
• Security situation 3
• Seventh Day Adventist 10
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 25
• Sexual and reproductive rights 13
• Shia 10
• Social group discrimination 13
• State of emergency 2
• Statelessness 2
• Sunni 10
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 4
• Temporary protection 1
• Terrorism 51
• Threats / Intimidation 11
• Torture 19
• Trafficking in persons 53
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 1
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Visas 1
• Witnesses 2
• Women's rights 26
• Women-at-risk 13
• Work permits 2

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• Amnesty International - Philippines
• Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
• Council of Europe, Venice Commission: Constitutional Courts (Links)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Philippines
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Philippines
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Philippines
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Philippines
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Philippines
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Philippines
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Philippines
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Philippines
• ReliefWeb - Philippines (the)
• UNHCR - Philippines
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Philippines
• United States Department of State - Philippines
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Philippines
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Philippines