Explore the state of human rights in the Philippines under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., including allegations of extrajudicial killings, harassment of NGOs, red-tagging of activists, and increasing forced disappearances.
EXTRAJUDICIAL killings, brazen assaults on journalists and political activist s, and other atrocities orchestrated throughout the administration of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. have left the Philippines' human rights status in a terrible state. According to Maria Jennifer Guste, convener for Defend NGOs Alliance in the Philippines, the Marcos administration has been targeting leftist activist groups across the country through a legal system, which has further limited democratic space.
The human rights and development defenders proceeded to disclose that since 2022 up until June of this year, harassment cases and charges related to terrorism in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao have increased to 59 in development workers and 21 in different non-government organizations.
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