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Opening a few cases of killings in police anti-drug operations to investigation would not lead to accountability if police killings and abuses continue without letup, human rights watchdog Karapatan averred on Tuesday, as the group slammed President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to block access to records of police killings in the drug war as a “clear …
Karapatan together with human rights defenders in the Philippines stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine in condemning the Israeli government’s continued attacks, repression, and other human rights violations and war crimes against Palestinians, their families, and their communities in occupied territories in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and in Gaza.
An independent investigation must be conducted into the killings of former Roman Catholic priest Rustico Tan in Cebu and National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultant Reynaldo Bocala and his aide Welly Arguelles Epago in Iloilo, human rights watchdog Karapatan asserted, following reports from alternative media outfits Panay Today and Aninaw Productions and …
Investigation on cases of killings in police anti-drug operations should have been done long ago if the Philippine National Police (PNP) is genuinely committed to accountability among its ranks, human rights watchdog Karapatan averred, as the group said that “justice for drug war victims under this regime still seems dim when the killings and police …
Join Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers, and Karapatan in this public briefing on the current human rights crisis in the Philippines and proposals on the urgent steps that can be taken by the Supreme Court to uphold human rights, in response to its March 2021 statement. These proposals were submitted to …
Media forum on the human rights crisis and what the judiciary can do to safeguard rights Read More »
Ottawa, May 19, 2021 – On 4 May 2021, the Subcommittee on International Human Rights (the Subcommittee) heard harrowing testimony from witnesses who described the crumbling state of human rights in the Philippines.
The Supreme Court must take urgent action to protect human rights defenders and their lawyers, human rights groups and victims of human rights violations urged anew on Tuesday in a letter submitted before the high court in response to its March 23, 2021 statement on the threats, red-tagging, and killings of judges and lawyers as …
Human rights alliance Karapatan today called for the immediate release of Caraga peasant leaders Marcela “Silay” Diaz, 59 years old and a stage 4 cancer patient, and Virgilio “Yoyong” Lincuna, 70 years old and a former political prisoner as well as a stroke survivor suffering from partial paralysis. The group’s call came after the death …
The Anti-Terrorism Council’s designation of National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultants and peace panel members as “terrorists” under the Anti-Terrorism Act is “red-tagging in its most blatant and most dangerous,” human rights alliance Karapatan asserted on Thursday, as the group assailed the designation as “brazenly arbitrary that it violates basic principles of …
Karapatan: Arbitrary designation of peace consultants under terror law a death warrant Read More »
Mariing kinondena ng HUSTISYA (Pagkakaisa ng mga Biktima para sa Hustisya) ang kapabayaan at kawalang puso ng administrasyong Duterte matapos masawi ang bilanggong pulitikal at lider-magsasaka na si Joseph Canlas.
