Carlos H. Conde is a prominent Filipino journalist, human rights researcher, and advocate from the Philippines who has dedicated over three decades to uncovering and documenting systemic issues within the country. Born and raised in Mindanao, Conde built a highly respected career covering deep-seated national issues, including corruption, political warfare, communist insurgencies, and severe human rights abuses. For many years, he was based in Davao City as a frontline journalist, where he extensively reported on the rising extrajudicial killings and local governance under then-Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. His investigative rigor and field-based reporting eventually led him to write for high-profile international and local publications, most notably serving as a regular correspondent for The New York Times.

In 2011, Conde transitioned from mainstream journalism to institutional human rights advocacy, joining the global watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) as the Senior Researcher for the Asia Division in Manila. For nearly 14 years, he utilized his journalistic training to meticulously document the horrors of the Philippine “drug war,” extrajudicial violence, and the targeted “red-tagging”, the dangerous government practice of labeling activists, journalists, and dissenters as communist insurgents. After leaving HRW in August 2025, he returned to his independent roots by founding and editing Rights Report Philippines and launching a dedicated Substack publication to focus on slow, evidence-based field reporting centering on victims of injustice. Demonstrating his ongoing influence, in May 2026, Conde was appointed as the Commissioner for Public Documentation, Transparency, and Democratic Accountability, as well as the concurrent Executive Director, for a newly launched independent, civilian-led Truth Commission tasked with establishing a credible public record of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines.

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Complete Name –> Carlos H. Conde
Birth Date –> N/A (Age )
Hometown –> Mindanao, Philippines