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

Stats and Resources / By / January 28, 2026

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

Stats and Resources / By / January 28, 2026

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

Campaigns, Posts, Stats and Resources, Uncategorized / By / December 27, 2022

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

Campaigns, Posts, Stats and Resources, Uncategorized / By / December 27, 2022

(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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