Resources

Overviews

• Human Rights Under Attack: Philippine Military & Police Involved in Unjust Killings and Rights Abuses, ICHRP-US, April 2019
• It’s Time to End U.S. Military Aid to the Philippines, Foreign Policy In Focus, April 8, 2019 (long version)
• The Philippine President Is Waging a Ruthless War on Drugs—And the U.S. Is Complicit, In These Times, October 8, 2018
• The U.S. is Funding a War on Poor People in the Philippines, The Progressive, August 9, 2018

U.S. Military Aid

• Factsheet on U.S. Military Aid to the Philippines, ICHRP SoCal, May 2019

Duterte’s “War on Drugs”

• As death toll rises, Duterte deploys dubious data in ‘war on drugs’, Reuters Investigates, October 18, 2016
• “If You Are Poor, You Are Killed:” Extrajudicial Executions in the Philippines’ “War on Drugs”, Amnesty International, 2017
• “License to Kill:” Philippine Police Killings in Duterte’s “War on Drugs”, Human Rights Watch, 2017
• “If They Resist, Kill Them All:” Police Vigilantism in the Philippines, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, 2016

Attacks on Human Rights Defenders

• 2018 Karapatan Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines: Duterte’s Blueprint for a Dictatorship, Karapatan, March 2019
• Duterte Killings Continue: State Terror & Human Rights in the Philippines, Ibon International, 2018
• Philippine NGOs to raise drug war at UN rights council , PhilStar, 2019

Attacks on Indigenous Communities in Mindanao

• For Lumad schools, even holding class is a struggle, PhilStar, July 11, 2018
• Lumad schools under attack in mineral-rich Mindanao, IBON, March 17, 2017
• Wars of Extinction: Discrimination & the Lumad Struggle in Mindanao, 2017

Martial Law & Attacks on Muslims in Mindanao

• State Terror & Tyranny in the Philippines: U.S.-backed Oplan Kapayapaan & Duterte’s Attacks on People’s Rights, Ibon International, 2018

US CORPORATIONS, ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

Defending the Philippines: Environmental activists at the mercy of business at all costs , Global Witness, 2019

AGRIBUSINESS INCLUDING DEL MONTE PHILIPPINES’ GROWERS IMPLICATED IN VIOLENT ATTACKS AGAINST INDIGENOUS GROUPS: Major exporter of pineapples to the US is carrying out business at all costs, Global Witness, 2019

Food giant Del Monte accused of complicity in Philippine attacks: Global Witness report accuses food and beverage company of ‘inappropriate’ ties with a landlord accused of violence. Al Jazeera, 2019.