Go deeper: US Senate Resolution 142, however, bases its information on the US State Department's own Human Rights Report in 2017 and 2018, which cited the Philippines' most significant human rights issues to include ‘‘unlawful or arbitrary killings by security forces, vigilantes, and others allegedly connected to the government, and by insurgents," arbitrary detention, political prisoners, criminal libel, "killings of and threats against journalists," and "official corruption and abuse of power," among others.