Articles related to international solidarity work
October 11, 2023 On the occasion of the Prison Awareness Month in the Philippines this October and the international campaign of ‘Parallel Press Conferences Worldwide to Call for News about Abdullah Öcalan on October 10, 2023,’ solidarity and friendship groups, progressive mass organizations, and representative of anti-imperialist movements gather in the Philippines to express their …
September 29, 2023 Dear friends, We are sharing with you the statement by the AMP – Aktionsbündnis Menschenrechte – Philippinen (Action Human Rights – Philippines) on the recent terror financing accusations against the Community Empowerment Resource Network, Inc. (CERNET), a network of humanitarian and development organizations in the Visayas in the Philippines. Feel free to …
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September 13, 2023 Dear friends, We are forwarding this statement by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a regional network of 81 member organisations across 21 Asian countries, of which Karapatan is a member organization. Please feel free to circulate this statement to your networks. You can also see the statement through …
September 13, 2023 Dear friends, We are sharing with you the statement by the US-based Philippines Faith Working Group organized by the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP ), on the use of Anti-Terrorism Financing Law against Faith-Based Institutions and Human Rights Defenders. Please feel free to circulate this statement to your …
Photo from Rappler Dear friends, We are sharing with you a joint statement of solidarity by eight international human rights NGOs — the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Amnesty International, the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), Front Line Defenders, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH, in the …
July 28, 2023 Dear friends, We are sharing with you this open letter by Civicus addressed to Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. calling for a halt to harassment against human rights defenders in the Philippines. You may also find the link to the letter through: Karapatan Public Information Desk Philippines: Halt harassment against human rights …
July 25, 2023 Dear friends, We are sharing with you this statement by the Philippine Australia Solidarity Association on the attacks against human rights defenders in the Philippines. Karapatan Public Information Desk —————————————————— We, the members of the Philippine Australia Solidarity Association (PASA), express our alarm at the ongoing persecution of human rights defenders and …
July 13, 2023 | Civicus Monitor Dear friends and colleagues, We are sharing with you the latest Civicus Monitor update a year into the Marcos Jr. presidency. Civicus is a global civil society alliance of organisations at the local, national, regional and international levels, and spans the spectrum of civil society. Karapatan is a member …
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Dear friends, While Pres. Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. is on a trip in Brussels to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations – European Union (Asean-EU) Commemorative Summit, we are sharing with you the statement of the Members of the European Parliament, dated December 8, 2022, on the perjury case and judicial harassment against national leaders …
Broadcast commentator Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa was brutally and brazenly murder last Monday, October 4, 2022. He is the second journalist to have been murdered under the Marcos Jr. administration. Only last September 18, broadcaster Rey Blanco was knifed to death in Negros. Their deaths—the 197th and 196th case of media killings since the supposed …
PH UPR Watch to UN Human Rights Council: Investigate human rights situation in PH Read More »
