FactCheck: HRW has written at least three articles about children in armed conflict in the Philippines. FactsFirstPH
Human Rights Watch , an international non-government organization advocating for human rights, has not written about children in armed conflict in the Philippines.The claim can be found in a post on November 9 in the Facebook account of retired Lieutenant General Antonio Parlade Jr., former spokesperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict . As of writing, the post already had 243 reactions, 5 comments, and 33 shares.
The relevant part of Parlade’s post reads: “Why can HRW write horrible stories about children in armed conflict in Syria, Africa, and other parts of the world BUT NOT IN THE PHILIPPINES?”has, in fact, written at least three articles about children in armed conflict in the Philippines, contrary to Parlade’s claim that they haven’t.where it describes its investigation of an incident in which the Philippine Army publicly declared some children as rebels under the New People’s Army .
HRW reported finding enough evidence to conclude that the children’s alleged involvement with the NPA was “fabricated by the military” and added that following the release of the children, the “Philippine Army has continued to harass and intimidate the children and their families.”
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