Carlos Conde
@carlosconde.bsky.social
Independent journalist/researcher in the Philippines focusing mainly on human rights. 🇵🇭. Ex-HRW, ex-NYT. | carlosconde.substack.com
Happy to announce that I have been named as one of the five commissioners of the civilian and civil society-led Philippine Truth Commission, tasked to establish a credible public record of the brutal drug war. I also serve as the commission’s Executive Director. New roles, same advocacy. ❤️🙏
Utter BS from Cayetano. 🤬 I get that journalists and media are supposed to report whatever a prick like him says but they can, you know, take an ethical stand and just ignore his lies. Because a lie — even a contextualized lie — is still a lie.
Toboso Revisited: A Fishpond, 19 Bodies, and a Crime Scene No One Preserved A month after a military operation in Negros Occidental left 19 people dead, mishandled evidence, submerged remains, and a frightened community stand between investigators and the truth. rightsreport.org/2026/05/21/t...
Toboso Revisited: A Fishpond, 19 Bodies, and a Crime Scene No One Preserved
A month after a military operation in Negros Occidental left 19 people dead, mishandled evidence, submerged remains, and a frightened community stand between investigators and the truth. Marchel P. Es...
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The Marcos Corruption Scandal: A $25 Billion Flood Control Fraud and the London PR Firm Behind the Cover-Up A London PR firm charged $144,000/month to rebrand a dictator's son. Inside the failed operation to whitewash the Marcos name. whalehunting.projectbrazen.com/the-scapegoa...
The Scapegoat: How $144,000 a Month Couldn't Fix the Marcos Name
Project Associates promised to rehabilitate Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s image for $144,000 monthly. The operation is falling apart. Inside the confidential proposal that reveals how power brokers attempt t...
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Court Throws Out Terrorism Financing Case vs Cebu NGO Workers, Who Vow to Sue Govt A Cebu court found the charges rested on a terrorist designation that did not exist when the alleged acts took place—exposing a prosecution that critics say was never about terrorism. rightsreport.org/2026/05/19/c...
Court Throws Out Terrorism Financing Case vs Cebu NGO Workers, Who Vow to Sue Govt
A Cebu court found the charges rested on a terrorist designation that did not exist when the alleged acts took place — exposing a prosecution that critics say was never...
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After a deadly clash left 19 people dead, including two children, soldiers swept through a remote farming community, searching homes and leaving residents too frightened to step outside for days. Marchel P. Espina reports from Toboso. rightsreport.org/2026/05/18/s...
ANALYSIS: The Office of the Solicitor General produced what many legal scholars are calling the most consequential brief in years. It also inadvertently made the case for why the Philippines needs to go back to the ICC, Carlos Conde argues. rightsreport.org/2026/05/18/b...
Good Law, No Will: What the OSG’s Position on Senator Bato Actually Means
ANALYSIS: The Office of the Solicitor General produced what many legal scholars are calling the most consequential brief in years. It also inadvertently made the case for why the Philippines...
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RA 9851: When the Law’s Proponents Become Its Enemies ANALYSIS: The fate of the Philippines’ most powerful accountability statute – the law on crimes against humanity – is not an irony. It is a diagnosis of the rot in our political culture. rightsreport.org/2026/05/16/r... LINK IN BIO
Jailed Filipino Journalist Wins Int'l 'Courage in Journalism' Award “The world recognizes in Frenchie Mae a journalist imprisoned for doing her job — and in that recognition lies the most damning vindication of her work and cause as a people’s journalist.” – NUPL rightsreport.org/2026/05/15/c...
Jailed Filipino Journalist Wins International ‘Courage in Journalism’ Award
"The world recognizes in Frenchie Mae a journalist imprisoned for doing her job — and in that recognition lies the most damning vindication of her work and cause as a...
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When Duterte was useful to deliver to the ICC, Marcos found the mechanism. When delivering Bato dela Rosa was inconvenient, the mechanism became invisible--and the fugitive became a ghost. The pattern is too clean to be coincidence & too sustained to be incompetence. rightsreport.org/2026/05/15/s...
Loren Helped Bring the Philippines to the ICC. Now She’s on Duterte’s Side. The senator once said the Philippines joined the ICC to ensure impunity would never be tolerated. Her son Leandro’s legal battle with the Marcos administration provides a clue for her pivot. rightsreport.org/2026/05/13/l...
EDITORIAL: History Is Patient. So Is The Hague. None of this means justice is inevitable, or that Dela Rosa will board a plane to The Hague tomorrow. Impunity fights hard on its way out. rightsreport.org/2026/05/12/b...
EDITORIAL: History Is Patient. So Is The Hague.
None of this means justice is inevitable, or that Dela Rosa will board a plane to The Hague tomorrow. Impunity fights hard on its way out. THERE is a quote,...
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The Philippine Senate did not just protect Senator Bato Dela Rosa, who is wanted by the ICC for crimes against humanity. This is a deliberate effort to make accountability impossible. Shame on the senators for dragging PH democracy through the gutter. rightsreport.org/2026/05/12/b...
How the PH Army, Aided by Residents & Drones, Set a Deadly Trap to Pin Down Toboso Casualties Residents heard the first shots before sunrise. By afternoon, 19 were dead — and a small community in Negros Occidental was left trying to understand what happened. rightsreport.org/2026/05/11/t...
ASEAN's Human Rights Body Enables Abuses. It Was Built that Way. If you are an ASEAN member, you can kill 1000s of your own citizens, disappear activists, label journalists as terrorists, and beat protesters in the streets. The bloc’s rights body will look away. rightsreport.org/2026/05/09/a...
Defeated at Every Turn While Offending the ICC with His Media Antics, Duterte’s Lead Lawyer Exits Nicholas Kaufman’s contract expired and his conduct drew official rebukes — but the real story is that he ran out of legal road. rightsreport.org/2026/05/09/k...
Defeated at Every Turn While Offending the ICC with His Media Antics, Duterte’s Lead Lawyer Exits
Nicholas Kaufman's contract expired and his conduct drew official rebukes — but the real story is that he ran out of legal road. FOR more than a year, Nicholas Kaufman...
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.@rightsreportPH editor Carlos Conde discusses (with @onenewsph's @edlingao, Ronald Llamas, Amy Pamintuan) press freedom, freedom of expression, the PGMN scandal, Jay Sonza's arrest, and how laws in the Philippines are misapplied vs media. Starts at 39:00 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIT2...
How ASEAN Keeps Looking Away as Human Rights Deteriorates When ASEAN members kill their own citizens, the bloc’s political forums look away, its rights body says nothing, and its founding doctrine of non-interference provides the institutional cover for all of it. rightsreport.org/2026/05/08/a...
So we've come to this, my dear National Union of Journalists of the Philippines?
‘Red-Tagging Must Stop.’ CHR Offers Ways to Make that Happen. The Philippine’s own rights body released a report on red-tagging, its second in 6 years, that lays out exactly what needs to happen. The question is whether anyone in power will act on it this time. rightsreport.org/2026/05/06/r...
By Spinning Toboso Killings Before Credible Probe, Marcos Govt Violates International Law NEWS ANALYSIS: The govt has framed its response to Toboso as though the military’s declaration of “success” is the default conclusion. International law says the opposite. rightsreport.org/2026/04/30/t...
By Spinning Toboso Killings Before Credible Probe, Marcos Govt Violates International Law
NEWS ANALYSIS: The Marcos administration has framed its response to Toboso as though the burden of proof rests with the families of the dead, as though the military's declaration of...
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WATCH: THE AGONY OF NEGROS: Unanswered Questions and the Dehumanization of Rebels and Dissenters, with @indayevarona @carloshconde @danabatnag rightsreport.org/2026/04/28/n...
WATCH: THE AGONY OF NEGROS: Unanswered Questions and the Dehumanization of Rebels and Dissenters
When young people — some of them students and children — are killed in military encounters in the Philippine countryside, the questions don't stop at who fired first. In this...
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Toboso 19: The Communist Party’s admission that nine of the 19 killed were not its combatants shifts the burden squarely onto the Armed Forces of the Philippines — and onto whatever investigation is still credible enough to find the truth. rightsreport.org/2026/04/28/t...
Toboso 19: The Communists Named Their Own Fighters. Now the Government Owes Answers About the Rest.
NEWS ANALYSIS: The Communist Party's admission that nine of the 19 killed were not its combatants shifts the burden squarely onto the Armed Forces of the Philippines — and onto...
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FOG OF WAR OR COVER-UP? #Negros19
Carlos Conde@carlosconde.bsky.social · 3mo ago19 Dead Bodies and the Army’s Claims That Don’t Add Up A 12-hr running gunfight should leave plenty of evidence: spent casings, trampled paths, bloodstains, bullet holes in trees or structures.These should have been documented by now. What are they hiding in Toboso? rightsreport.org/2026/04/26/t...
Another ‘Nanlaban’ Claim: Boy, Dad, Cousin Killed in Police Raid for Militant A joint military-police operation targeting a suspected militant left three members of a Zamboanga City family dead. The man they were looking for was not among them. rightsreport.org/2026/04/27/z...
Another ‘Nanlaban’ Claim: Boy, Dad, Cousin Killed in Police Raid for Militant
A joint military-police operation targeting a suspected militant left three members of a Zamboanga City family dead. The man they were looking for was not among them. JUST after 1:30...
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19 Dead Bodies and the Army’s Claims That Don’t Add Up A 12-hr running gunfight should leave plenty of evidence: spent casings, trampled paths, bloodstains, bullet holes in trees or structures.These should have been documented by now. What are they hiding in Toboso? rightsreport.org/2026/04/26/t...
19 Dead Bodies and the Army’s Claims That Don’t Add Up
A 12-hour running gunfight should leave plenty of evidence: spent casings, trampled paths, bloodstains, bullet holes in trees or structures. These should have been documented by now. What are they...
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Why the Laws of War Matter in Places Like Negros — and Why They Are Routinely Ignored Both sides in the Philippines’ communist insurgency have formally committed to follow the rules of war. In Negros Occidental and elsewhere, they have repeatedly broken them. rightsreport.org/2026/04/24/i...
Why the Laws of War Matter in Places Like Negros — and Why They Are Routinely Ignored
CONTEXT CHECK: Both sides in the Philippines' communist insurgency have formally committed to follow the rules of war. In Negros Occidental and elsewhere, they have repeatedly broken them. WHEN human....
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Death of 19 in Army Raid Raises Hard, Familiar Questions Nineteen people are dead and hundreds displaced after a military operation in Negros Occidental. The military called it a decisive victory against the communists. Human rights groups are demanding answers. rightsreport.org/2026/04/23/n...
Negros Burns, Again: Death of 19 in Army Raid Raises Hard, Familiar Questions
Nineteen people are dead and hundreds displaced after a military operation in Negros Occidental. The military called it a decisive victory against the communists. Human rights groups are demanding ans...
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Duterte’s Lawyer Is Right About the ICC Seeking Relevance. He’s Just Wrong About Why. NEWS ANALYSIS by Carlos Conde: The ICC handed drug war families something no Philippine court ever did: a real shot at accountability. Pres. Marcos has no excuse not to meet it. rightsreport.org/2026/04/23/i...
Duterte’s Lawyer Is Right About the ICC Seeking Relevance. He’s Just Wrong About Why.
NEWS ANALYSIS: The ICC handed drug war families something no Philippine court ever did: a real shot at accountability. President Marcos has no excuse not to meet it. NICHOLAS Kaufman...
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