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Today, March 17, 2025 marks the sixth year of Rodrigo Duterte’s withdrawal from the Rome Statute which created the International Criminal Court (ICC). Duterte’s self-serving decision to withdraw from the Rome Statute was an attempt to escape accountability in the face of the ICC’s initiation of investigations into the mass killings of drug suspects. Duterte’s …

KARAPATAN on the 6th year after PH withdrawal from the Rome Statute Read More »

The world is getting smaller for police officers known to have been involved in the Duterte regime’s bloody war on drugs. The Immigration Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada has rejected the application for permanent residence of Jose Ahuday, a former element of the Philippine National Police (PNP) assigned to the Drug …

KARAPATAN: World getting smaller for Duterte’s drug war implementers Read More »

Former Pres. Rodrigo Duterte made his first appearance before the International Criminal Court (ICC) trying hard to look like a broken man. It was his latest attempt to play the victim card, and human rights violations victims and their families who were watching did not buy it. The families instantly recalled Duterte’s arrogant behavior at …

KARAPATAN on the appearance of Duterte in the ICC pre-trial chamber proceedings Read More »

KARAPATAN urged the Senate not to give “protection” to former Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s henchman, Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, after the latter said he will ask the Senate to refuse to surrender him to the International Criminal Court (ICC). “We urge the Senate not to coddle criminals, and let justice take its due course, this …

Don’t protect Bato, KARAPATAN urges Senate Read More »

The Dutertes are disgustingly portraying themselves as victims after the arrest of Rodrigo Duterte pursuant to the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s issuance of an arrest warrant against him for crimes against humanity. “The Dutertes may whine all they want, but they will never look credible playing the victim card in the face of the pain …

Karapatan to Duterte: Stop playing the victim! Read More »

Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s press conference after Rodrigo Duterte’s departure for The Hague cavalierly described the former president’s arrest as the culmination of a process that began in 2017, when Duterte was first investigated by prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity. “Of course, Marcos Jr. downplays the tenacity and courage of …

Give credit where credit is due: Duterte’s arrest a product of Filipino people’s collective struggle for justice and accountability-Karapatan Read More »

Karapatan welcomes the arrest of Rodrigo Duterte as a long overdue product of the Filipino people’s campaign for justice and accountability. Duterte should be made accountable for the extrajudicial killings in the drug war as well as the extrajudicial killings of activists and revolutionaries who had been rendered hors de combat. Both his anti-drug war …

Hold Rodrigo Duterte accountable for EJKs under his watch Read More »

Karapatan condemns the incessant red-tagging of four Cordilleran activists by the Joint Task Unit (JTU) “Panagkaykaysa” under the 5th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army. The activists continue to be red-tagged despite the passage of a Baguio City ordinance prohibiting red-tagging and in spite of a Supreme Court ruling that states that red-tagging constitutes a …

KARAPATAN condemns red-tagging of four Cordillera activists anew Read More »