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KARAPATAN denounces violent demolition in Angeles City

KARAPATAN condemns the violent demolition of a peasant community in Sitio Balubad, Barangay Anunas, Angeles City. At least seven persons have reportedly been injured after combined elements of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and goons hired by Clarkhills Properties Corporation opened fire on the protesting farmers. Even reporters covering the demolition were reportedly harassed and …

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KARAPATAN to CHR Chair: Pursue independent EJK probe in Negros

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN has asked Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Chairperson Richard Palpal-latoc to look into reports that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) have refused to cooperate with the CHR in Negros in the latter’s investigations into the killings of red-tagged farmers and other marginalized sectors …

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KARAPATAN to German, Czech governments: Raise continuing EJKs, injustice in PH in meetings with Marcos Jr.

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN called on the governments of Germany and the Czech Republic to raise grave concerns on the dire lack of accountability in the cases of extrajudicial killings, including that of Karapatan paralegal Zara Alvarez, and the continuing killings in the Philippines under the current administration, during the state visits of President Ferdinand …

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KARAPATAN’s 2023 Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines

Dear friends, We are sharing with you KARAPATAN’s 2023 Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines. After a year and a half in power, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has more and more epitomized the fascist and terrorist nature of his rule. On the one hand, he presents a carefully cultivated “presidential” image, never …

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On the Philippine government’s statements at the UNHRC and the Marcos-Duterte admin’s human rights coordinating council

KARAPATAN takes exception to statements by Philippine government representatives at the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland regarding the supposed reforms that it has undertaken to uphold human rights and its plans to establish a human rights coordinating council. If it isn’t crass hypocrisy, it is plain and simple window-dressing. …

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Pahayag ng SELDA sa Pandaigdigang Araw ng mga Kababaihan

PALAYAIN ANG KABABAIHANG BILANGGONG PULITIKAL!PALAYAIN ANG LAHAT NG BILANGGONG PULITIKAL!Pahayag ng Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA)sa Araw ng KababaihanMarso 8, 2024 Mayroon ngayong 799 bilanggong pulitikal na nakapiit sa mga kulungan sa iba’t ibang sulok ng bansa. Isang daan at animnapu’t apat (164) sa kanila ay kababaihan, at marami ang may …

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KARAPATAN: Marcos Jr. lies in full view of int’l audience in ABC interview

In the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. manages to personally avoid incisive questions regarding the grave human rights violations and the plunder of government coffers under his father’s brutal martial law regime. He has subordinates to take the heat for him and attack dogs from the NTF-ELCAC (National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict) …

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On the continuing judicial harassment vs Karapatan, RMP and Gabriela officers

Yesterday, March 7, 2024, KARAPATAN, through its legal counsel, was notified by the Office of the Solicitor General that it intends to appeal the decision of Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 84 Judge Luisito Cortez upholding the acquittal of ten human rights defenders of Karapatan, the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines and Gabriela on …

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