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Rights group denounces sedition complaint vs anti-corruption activists

KARAPATAN condemned the Department of Justice (DOJ) for coming up with a slew of trumped-up sedition charges against 97 protesters, including mass leaders, who participated in the anti-corruption rally on September 21, 2025, instead of seriously running after corrupt politicians and their cohorts in the private sector. Among those who received subpoenas from the DOJ …

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KARAPATAN welcomes acquittal of peasant organizer Amanda Echanis; demands accountability for rights violations

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN welcomed the acquittal of poet, writer, and peasant women’s organizer Amanda Echanis today, who spent more than five years in detention over trumped-up charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives. Echanis, an organizer of the Cagayan chapter of the Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women, was arrested in the early …

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CHR, independent IHL monitors urged to investigate Mindoro attacks

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and independent national and international monitors of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) to immediately investigate the aerial strafing and bombings carried out by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Barangay Cabacao, Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro on 1 January 2026, which left …

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Families of desaparecidos call to surface missing women Chantal Anicoche and Scarlet Lyn Gayo

Desaparecidos, an organization of families of victims of enforced disappearances, called on State security forces to surface two missing women Chantal Anicoche, a 25-year old volunteer researcher from the United States, and Scarlet Lyne Gayo, a staff member of National Democratic Front Cagayan Valley. Anicoche went missing after being separated from her companions during the …

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KARAPATAN: Stop U.S. Military Aggression Against Venezuela!

KARAPATAN strongly condemns the United States’ military aggression against Venezuela, a grave crime of aggression against the Venezuelan people, which is a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and the fundamental principles of the Venezuelan people’s right to national sovereignty and self-determination. The bombing of civilian and military areas in Caracas and nearby states has …

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KARAPATAN: 2026 national budget remains fuel for corruption, rights violations

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN warned of increased violations of people’s rights particularly in rural communities, with the newly enacted 2026 national budget, which it denounced as a “massive pork barrel scheme and a continuing source of corruption, rights violations, and fascism.” “The retention of funding for bodies such as the National Task Force to End …

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Rights group condemns aerial strafings, bombings in Occidental Mindoro

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN condemned the aerial strafings and bombings carried out by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro on New Year’s Day, and called for the cessation of State operations that endanger civilian lives and devastate communities, including communities and farms of indigenous people. According to local …

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Anti-corruption protester spends New Year behind bars: Karapatan calls for release of re-arrested Sept 21 protester Ryan Ombrog

Human rights alliance Karapatan called for release of Ryan Ombrog, a 28-year-old factory worker and resident of Barangay Maysan, Valenzuela City, one of the more than 200 individuals arrested and detained during the September 21 anti-corruption protests in Manila, who was re-arrested more than a week ago. Ombrog was re-arrested on December 23, 2025 and …

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KARAPATAN condemns killing of woman farmer-leader in Negros

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN strongly condemned the killing of Warlita Jimenez, a 55-year-old woman farmer-leader, on December 23 in Sitio Makilo, Barangay Camansi, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental. “While families marked the Christmas season and gathered in celebration, and Ferdinand Marcos Jr. spews words of hypocrisy to ‘not to forget the poor, the sick, victims of …

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