Philippines

• Abduction 14
• Access to water 2
• Airports 1
• Anti-terrorism law 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 18
• Armed forces / Military 34
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 65
• Asylum policy 1
• Asylum-seekers 7
• Border conflict 1
• Catholic 3
• Ceasefire 8
• Chechen 1
• Child labour 1
• Child soldiers 14
• Children's rights 17
• Children-at-risk 18
• Christian 7
• Citizenship / Nationality law 9
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 2
• Combatants / Former combatants 3
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 6
• Conflict prevention 1
• Conflict resolution 14
• Conflict situation 32
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Copts 5
• Corruption 7
• Crimes against humanity 3
• Criminal justice 7
• Death in custody 1
• Death penalty 10
• Death squads 14
• Demobilization / Disarmament 4
• Democracy 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 5
• Disappeared persons 18
• Domestic violence 4
• Drug trafficking 23
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 13
• Election law 1
• Elections 19
• Evacuation 5
• Extrajudicial executions 87
• Extreme poverty 5
• Filipinos 6
• Forced labour 2
• Forced marriage 4
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 25
• Freedom of assembly and association 10
• Freedom of conscience 3
• Freedom of expression 186
• Freedom of information 97
• Freedom of religion 5
• Freedom of speech 78
• Fulani 2
• Gender discrimination 3
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Good governance 7
• HIV and AIDS 8
• Harmful traditional practices 1
• Honour killings 2
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 5
• Human Rights Council 6
• Human rights activists 17
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 23
• Human rights law 2
• Human rights monitors 2
• Humanitarian assistance 19
• IDP camps 5
• Immigrants 2
• Immigration Detention 3
• Immunity 2
• Impunity 46
• Indigenous persons 7
• Internal armed conflict 24
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 96
• International armed conflict 1
• International courts and tribunals 4
• International criminal law 1
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 5
• Jehovah's Witness 3
• Kurd 5
• Labour law 1
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 16
• Livelihoods 1
• Maternal and child health care 7
• Mental health 1
• Migrant rights 8
• Migrants 12
• Military law 3
• Military operations 17
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 1
• Minorities 2
• Moros 1
• Muslim 24
• National security / Public order 1
• Non-state agents of persecution 2
• One-child policy / Family planning 2
• Opposition 5
• Passports 2
• Peace agreements 17
• Peace process 24
• Peacekeeping 3
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 6
• Persecution based on political opinion 12
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 7
• Persons with disabilities 2
• Piracy 1
• Police 30
• Political groups 4
• Political parties 9
• Political situation 23
• Pre-trial detention 3
• Prevention of discrimination 1
• Prison or detention conditions 10
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 7
• Protestant 3
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 11
• Public health 9
• Reconciliation 1
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
• Refugees 9
• Registration 2
• Religious discrimination 3
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 2
• Resettlement 2
• Return conditions 4
• Returnees 5
• Right to education 7
• Right to employment 2
• Right to family life 1
• Right to food 1
• Right to health 7
• Right to justice 16
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Right to life 6
• Right to registration at birth 1
• Right to return 1
• Right to seek asylum 1
• Right to self-determination 3
• Roma 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 12
• Security forces 25
• Security situation 66
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 4
• Sexual and reproductive rights 11
• Shia 2
• Social group discrimination 1
• State of emergency 4
• State protection 1
• Statelessness 18
• Statelessness Determination Procedures 9
• Sunni 2
• Tamil 1
• Terrorism 42
• Threats / Intimidation 1
• Torture 9
• Trafficking in persons 13
• Travel documents 5
• Uighur 4
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4
• Visas 2
• Voluntary repatriation 2
• War crimes 2
• Witnesses 4
• Women's rights 13
• Women-at-risk 6

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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