Philippine ISPs Block Safe Abortion Website; Communities Protest Destructive Mining, Urge DENR to Cancel Permits
03/13/2026: The latest from Rights Report Philippines
Unsafe Abortion Kills, Harms Thousands of Filipino Women but Safe Abortion Website Blocked in PH
Although illegal, hundreds of thousands of women in the Philippines undergo induced and unsafe abortion each year. For many of them, initiatives like Women on Web are a lifeline. But Internet providers in the Philippines have blocked access to its website, thus depriving women of medically accurate, nonjudgmental information and care.
‘Mining Hell Week’: Communities Protest Destructive Mining, Urge DENR to Cancel Permits
Five groups demand the cancellation of permits for mining companies found to have damaged the environment as reports warn of a widening human rights crisis across the Philippines due to mining.
