The ICC chamber that will try Duterte would be as if former Commission on Human Rights chairpersons Etta Rosales, the late ...

Al’s arrest in 1984, together with Lino Brocka and Behn Cervantes during a protest action against the Marcos dictatorship, led me to the path of lawyering for human rights. Later, Al and I worked ...

Kung Gusto mo ng Pagbabago: The Chito Gascon Leadership Series is moderated by Roby Alampay, award-winning journalist; News Anchor of The Big Story and The Chiefs on Cignal TV's One News Channel; ...

Jose Luis Martin ‘Chito’ Gascon was president of the University of the Philippines student council when the Edsa revolt broke out. He was there every day, as were thousands of other students. Not long ...

Kung Gusto mo ng Pagbabago: The Chito Gascon Leadership Series is moderated by Roby Alampay, award-winning Filipino journalist; Founder, chairman, and Editor-at-Large of PumaPodcast; and an Asia ...

International Human Rights Day in the Philippines was celebrated this year without the presence of human rights icon Chito Gascon. December 10 each year is known as Human Rights Day, the very day ...

Jose Luis “Chito” Gascon, a Filipino lawyer and human rights activist who opposed the autocratic rule of Ferdinand Marcos and more recently brought global attention to the murderous “war on ...

Chito Gascón, center, leads families of victims of alleged extrajudicial killings in the Philippines’ “war on drugs” in a 2019 march. (Bullit Marquez/AP) By Phil Davison.

As a friend: Chito Gascon would come to our house and dine with my family. He always made me feel I’m part of his. We did argue many times, but after a while he would give me a hug.

Jose Luis Martin Gascon, known to all as “Chito,” who had chaired the governmental Commission on Human Rights since 2015, died October 9 from complications due to Covid-19, his family said. He ...

IT is doubly sad that Jose Luis Martin 'Chito' Gascon succumbed to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) at a time when the International Criminal Court is about to begin the formal investigation ...