President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines should ensure a transparent, inclusive process to select qualified and independent human rights experts as commissioners for the national ...

The report stems from a 2015 petition that civil society groups and typhoon survivors in the Philippines brought to the commission. In it, ...

A PHILIPPINES COMMISSION; President Schurman of Cornell Will Probably Be Chairman. TO STUDY OUR NEW PEOPLE Investigation Will Be Purely of an Economic and Not of a Political Nature.

The president of voting machine company Smartmatic and two other executives were charged with bribing the head of the Philippines election commission in order to get business during the 2016 ...

The Friars' Lands in the Philippines; Questions Which Gov. Taft and the Commission of Cardinals Have Been Discussing -- Property That the United States Government May Buy -- Reasons for the Purchase.

A federal grand jury in Florida indicted Smartmatic co-founder Roger Piñate and another company executive and the former chairman of the Philippines’ Commission on Elections, Andres Bautista ...

The Philippines is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world, an archipelago south of Taiwan that is hit by an average of 20 cyclones each year, according to the commission’s report.

Since Duterte was elected in May and launched his war on drugs in July, the Philippines National Police say they have killed more than 2,000 Filipinos, said Phelim Kine, deputy director for Human ...

The first Philippine Commission had given a ball in 1899, which was a landmark for Filipino matrons and belles in their discussions and misapprehensions as to what Americans were like socially.

Unlike the old style imperialism, American policy in the Philippines, to quote the instructions of President McKinley to the American Commission in 1900, has not been designed ‘for our ...