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What: Press conference on the announcement of International Observers Mission 2025
Date: April 22 at 6pm Pacific, 9pm Eastern / April 23 at 9am Philippines
The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) is announcing that it will send international observers to monitor the 2025 Philippine midterm elections.
In 2022, ICHRP made the news for its previous observation on the Presidential Elections that resulted in the return of Marcos Jr. to Malacanang. ICHRP’s 2022 International Observers Mission, which included 60 observers from over 11 countries, documented elections-related human rights violations including vote buying, failure of the electronic voting-counting system, misinformation, red-tagging and threats, and even killings. ICHRP’s final report concluded the previous election was neither free nor fair, raising concern over the shrinking civic space in the Philippines and the ongoing violations of the Filipino people’s civil and political rights.
Now, following the ICC arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and the months-long feuding between the Marcos and Duterte families, ICHRP is sending another delegation to provide independent observation. Amid ongoing reports of election fraud, disinformation, and violence related to the electoral process—all against the backdrop of a constantly worsening human rights situation in the Philippines, marked by frequent disappearances, bombings of civilian communities in the countryside, and de facto martial law—it is more urgent than ever that independent observers collect, analyze, and project their findings to the international community.
On April 22 North America time, April 23 Philippines time, ICHRP will host “The World is Watching: Philippine Elections 2025,” a webinar exploring the imperative for independent observation in the context of a profoundly corrupt electoral system. Danilo Arao from Kontra Daya, a coalition of organizations opposing election fraud, will cover the worsening rights situation in the Philippines, and Commissioners from around the world will present the findings of the 2022 International Observers Mission and an overview of objectives for 2025.
