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April 10, 2017 Ms. Agnes Callamard Special Rapporteur Extrajudicial/Summary or Arbitrary Executions Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Palais Wilson, 52 Rue des Pâquis CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland Dear Ms. Callamard, Greetings of peace! On behalf of Karapatan Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights, a non-government organization working for …
FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS! We, Canadians for just peace in the Philippines, strongly support the Peace Talks between the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDPF). We believe that the Peace Process is key to solving the long-standing armed conflict and we hope fervently for its success.
Republic of the Philippines Joint Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review 27th Session of the UPR Working Group Submitted on 22 September 2016 Submission by CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, NGO in General Consultative Status with ECOSOC and Karapatan – Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights "1.5 CIVICUS and Karapatan are deeply …
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FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!
Karapatan Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights – Philippines calls on Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to immediately release pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) leaders. On November 4, HDP Co-chairs Sellahatin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag were arrested along with nine other members of the parliament as part of the crackdown against members of the …
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Caceres was a co-founder of the Civil Council of Grassroots and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (Consejo Civico de Organizaciones Populares Indigena de Honduras, COPINH), while Garcia is an active member of the said organization. Founded in 1993, COPINH is a social and political organization that has been actively campaigning for the rights of the Lenca …
The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) Commission 3 (In Defense of Human Rights and Political Prisoners) condemns in strongest terms the assassination of Omar Nayef Zayed, a former Palestinian political prisoner who sought asylum in Bulgaria.
Prisons all over the world teem with political prisoners. The former symbolizes power, control, repression; the latter, consciousness, freedom, struggle. The former desires to keep the status quo; the latter, to dismantle the unjust structures, free the world from their rein and bring about substantive change.
In behalf of our organizations UMANGAT-MIGRANTE and ICHRP-Rome, Italy and other fellow overseas Filipino Workers in Italy, we express our full support to the ongoing struggles of the Lumad against the closures of their schools, militarization of their villages and the unbaiting Human Rights
