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2021 Karapatan Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines

Into the Final Year of the Tyrant Duterte: Continuing Fascism Met With People’s Resistance When Rodrigo Duterte took the presidency in 2016, he made two particular promises to the Filipino people: that “change is coming,” and that his term would be a bloody one. President Duterte’s promise of change was to continue the same anti-people …

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2020 Karapatan Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines

Epidemic of State Terror and The People’s Resistance 2020 seemed to go on and on without any end in sight as one crisis after another pummelled deadly blows upon a nation already free-falling towards social degradation. For the past four years, the administration of Rodrigo Duterte had proven to be a deadly crisis of its …

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2019 Karapatan Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines

The Worst acts of the Duterte Government, Photoshopped Progress, and the Continuing challenge to resist tyranny Capping of the end of another decade is the striking symptom of a nation in constant social decline with the upswing of a rotten leadership draped in a populist shawl. Rodrigo Duterte has made an early mark of gross …

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2018 Karapatan Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines

DUTERTE’S BLUEPRINT FOR A DICTATORSHIP 2018 was the year of incessant aggression by the opportunists and militarists in government in satisfying their avarice and pushing their anti-people and subservient-to-US agenda but were matched with the people’s determined resistance to frustrate these vultures and mad dogs of President Rodrigo R. Duterte. The dictatorship championed by Duterte …

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2017 Karapatan Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines

Duterte’s Choice: The Tyrant Emerged TURNING 2017 INTO A YEAR OF STATE TERROR In what can only be described as a decaying ego desperate for power, President Rodrigo R. Duterte, with his US-backed regime, has persisted with savage viciousness in continuing the government’s gross human rights violations against the Filipino masses. Employing the resources of …

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The Dishonourable Human Rights Record of BS Aquino III

The documentation of this publication “THE DISHONOURABLE HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD OF BENIGNO S. AQUINO III” is the work of many human rights defenders in the Philippine countryside who defy all odds to monitor and write the truth about the human rights situation in the country. During the presidency of Benigno Simeon Aquino III, a number …

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The 787 individuals that make up the 233 lumad-Mamanwa evaucees troop towards another evacuation center after the provincial government turned away

Appeal for support for Mamanwa communities forcibly evacuated due to military operations

Dear friends and fellow rights advocates, Greetings! Military elements from the 30th and 38th IBPA and the 3rd Special Forces of the 402nd Brigade have encamped in civilian communities in the mountain areas of Cabadbaran and Kitcharao, Agusan del Norte and Alegria in Surigao del Norte. The soldiers have occupied public places, and are staying …

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From defenders to victims: the plight HRDs in the Philippines amidst continuing impunity

(Paper presented by Atty. Edre U. Olalia, Secretary General of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) and Cristina E. Palabay, Spokesperson of Karapatan, at the Conference on Defending Human Rights Defenders  in London, 24 February 2012, organized by the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, Amnesty International UK and the European Association of Lawyers for …

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