Carlos H. Conde
Carlos H. Conde is a senior researcher at the Asia division of Human Rights Watch covering the Philippines. His current research focuses on the ongoing “war on drugs” in the Philippines where thousands have died. He has done research on extrajudicial killings of activists, journalists, legal professionals, peasant leaders, environmentalists, and Indigenous peoples. He has also documented allegations of torture, enforced disappearances, and press freedom violations. He has written reports on death squads, the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Philippines, child labor, and the impact of the anti-drug campaign on the children left behind by the victims.
Before joining Human Rights Watch, Conde worked as a journalist for 20 years, mainly as the freelance correspondent in the Philippines for The New York Times. He worked as a stringer, reporter, and editor for various publications in the Philippines and abroad. He served as secretary-general of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and has been a fellow at the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. As a trustee for the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, he has served numerous times as a member of the panel that chooses the Jaime V. Ongpin awards for journalism, considered the Philippines’ Pulitzer Prize. He was a Jefferson Fellow (2003) at the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii.
Articles Authored
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March 17, 2017
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March 9, 2017
Philippine President Encourages War Crimes
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March 7, 2017
The Philippines’ Alarming Death Penalty U-Turn
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February 2, 2017
Philippine Education Department Says No to Condoms
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January 17, 2017
Philippine Officials’ Anti-Condom Stance Imperils Youth
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January 13, 2017
Philippines Plugs Reproductive Health Funding Gaps
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October 20, 2016
Philippine Police Probe Violent Protest Dispersal
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October 18, 2016
Philippine Tribal Minorities Demand Justice
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September 20, 2016
Philippines Transgender Lawmaker Urges Protection for LGBT Rights
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Reports Authored
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Fueling the Philippines’ HIV Epidemic
Government Barriers to Condom Use by Men Who Have Sex With Men