Karapatan welcomes House committee approval of bill on the protection of rights defenders
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PH a dangerous place for rights defenders under Duterte with arrest of women and children’s rights advocate
Rights group Karapatan called for the immediate release of women and child rights advocate Maria Salome Crisostomo-Ujano, as the group condemned her arrest yesterday, November 14, as “an attack on women and children’s rights advocates under a regime that spent its whole term endangering rights defenders, wrongfully tagging them as criminals and terrorists.”
Karapatan asserts call to surface abducted peasant organizer Steve Abua
Human rights watchdog Karapatan asserted calls to surface peasant organizer Steve Abua, who was last seen in Lubao, Pampanga last Saturday, November 6, 2021. Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay condemned Abua’s abduction and disappearance, as she tagged State forces as the “only possible perpetrators” of this “cowardly criminal act” based on the initial reports regarding …
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Karapatan welcomes defunding of NTF-ELCAC, presses call for its abolition
Photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat Karapatan welcomes the Senate Committee on Finance’s move to defund the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) by cutting down PhP24 billion from its proposed budget and reallocating it to the government’s COVID-19 pandemic response, particularly to the special risk allowance for health workers.
Martial law survivors appeal to SC: Affirm Imelda’s conviction, send her to jail
Photo by Jire Carreon/ABS-CBN News Marcos’ martial law victims and survivors led by SELDA (Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto) and the Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses to Malacanang and Martial Law (CARMMA) appealed to the Supreme Court today to affirm former first lady Imelda Marcos’ conviction by the Sandiganbayan.
DILG’s “no-vax, no subsidy” proposal infringes on people’s rights
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“A long overdue measure:” Karapatan urges Congress to pass law protecting rights defenders
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SELDA’s statement on the petition to cancel Bongbong Marcos’ presidential bid
SELDA (Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto) welcomes the petition of different human rights groups filed at the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to cancel the Certificate of Candidacy (COC) of Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., which would disqualify him as candidate in the 2022 presidential elections.
Karapatan calls for independent probe into reported IHL violations in the killing of Jorge “Ka Oris” Madlos and medical aide
Following the reported killing of New People’s Army’s (NPA) National Operational Command Spokesperson Jorge “Ka Oris” Madlos and his medical aide Eighfel Dela Peña, human rights watchdog Karapatan called for an independent and impartial investigation to determine the actual circumstances of their deaths, given initial reports which point to possible and brazen violations of international …