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Former political prisoners under the Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA) hit the Duterte administration after charging two officials of human rights alliance Karapatan with attempted murder.
Mariing kinukundena ng mga biktima ng paglabag sa karapatang pantao sa ilalim ng grupong Hustisya (Pagkakaisa ng mga Biktima para sa Hustisya) ang paggamit ng mga larawan ng dating mamamahayag pangkampus at human rights worker na si Benjaline “Beng” Hernandez sa mga propaganda kontra-komunismo sa mga lungsod ng Davao at Makati kamakailan.
Karapatan denounces the extrajudicial killing of Dandy Miguel, Vice Chairperson of PAMANTIK – Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) and president of Lakas ng Nagkakaisang Manggagawa ng Fuji Electric – Olalia – KMU, at 8:45 p.m. on March 28, 2021. We grieve with his family, friends, colleagues and fellow workers. The killing of Miguel followed the March …
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Human rights alliance Karapatan assailed the attempted murder charge against its National Chairperson Elisa Lubi and Karapatan – Southern Mindanao Region Secretary General Jayvee “Jay” Apiag as “utterly absurd trumped-up charges only meant to harass and threaten them as the Duterte government has done to other human rights workers” as Lubi and Apiag filed their …
Human rights watchdog Karapatan today sounded the alarm on reports of arrests and threats against activists and National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultant Rafael Baylosis, as it presses for urgent efforts to address the pattern of judicial harassment and harassment of human rights defenders and political dissenters.
In the court documents on the cases against Karapatan human rights worker Renalyn Tejero, four soldiers of the 12th Scout Ranger Company of the 4th Scout Ranger Battalion of the Philippine Army said that they were able to identify all suspects, presumably including Tejero, in the alleged murder of Cpl. Marion Suson, in an encounter …
Karapatan welcomes and supports the filing of Senate Bill No. 2121 which aims to define and penalize red-tagging. There continues to be a glaring impunity for State forces who commit, perpetuate, and peddle such dangerous lies and deadly rhetoric — such as Secretary Delfin Lorenzana’s recent reappointment of two military generals who were fired for …
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Regulating the funding of non-government and civil society organizations and requiring them to secure clearances from State security forces to participate in dialogues with local government units “would only serve to further constrict the already narrowed civic and democratic spaces we have left in the Philippines and silence civil society voices and dissent,” human rights …
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This is a joint oral statement delivered by Cecile Gaa on behalf of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, Civicus World Alliance for Citizen the Participation, World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), Human Rights Watch, the Philippines Alliance of Human Rights Advocates, and the International Federation …
Karapatan welcomes the statement of the Supreme Court en banc on its actions regarding threats and killings of lawyers and judges. Its concern on and taking note of the welfare of judges and lawyers, including those who experienced threats among the lawyers in the petitions questioning the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 and the red-tagging of …
