Articles related to international solidarity work
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
KARAPATAN Philippines condemns the recent arrest and detention of Malaysian activists, during their peaceful assembly to express their call for an investigation of an alleged corruption on the 1MDB issue. We likewise join the call for their immediate and unconditional release. Freedom of assembly and freedom of expression are basic human rights enshrined in the …
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Workshop Group on the Gendered Impacts of Mining By Association of Women´s Rights in Development (AWID), Cordillera Women’s Education Action Research Center, Karapatan Alliance for People’s Rights, KAIROS International People’s Conference on Mining Manila, Philippines | July 30 – August 1, 2015 DECLARATION Women human rights defenders (WHRDs) have a very strong connection with …
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Karapatan supports the call for unconditional provision for humanitarian aid and shelter for the Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshi refugees and asylum seekers. We are alarmed at the statements by officials of the Philippine government putting conditions before providing aid to the refugees. Immigration chief Siegfried Mison said that those without travel documents will be denied …
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Philippine human rights organization Karapatan joined various organizations under the International League of Peoples’ Struggles in a protest action in front of the Embassy of Mexico in Makati City to demand justice for Mexican activist Gustavo S. Delgado, a leader of the Frente Popular Revolucionario de Mexico (FPR-Revolutionary Popular Front).
On the International Day of Action for the Release of Political Prisoners on December 3, the Commission 3[i]
