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Karapatan today expressed its support for Rise Up!, a campaign initiated by faith-based groups, institutions and people’s organizations against the drug menace and for the protection of human and people’s rights against drug-related extrajudicial killings, as it holds a public forum and launch today at the Iglesia Filipino Independiente (IFI).
Free the artist! Free all political prisoners! – Karapatan As PEN International, a worldwide association of writers, commemorate the 35th year of the Day of Imprisoned Writers today, Karapatan reiterated its call to the Duterte administration to release all political prisoners, including writers and artists among them.
“Amid reports of violations of human and people’s rights, Pres. Rodrigo Duterte is treading on dangerous ground with his plan to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus. Such suspension can be conveniently used by the military and police as justification for more abuses,” stated Cristina Palabay, Karapatan Secretary General, today after Duterte’s …
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“Military operations in communities through Oplan Bayanihan and the consequent human rights violations that come with every operation continue. If President Rodrigo Duterte is indeed serious in his peace initiatives, he should rein in the Armed Forces of the Philippines from its vile efforts to sabotage the GRP and NDFP peacetalks, order his troops to …
Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s presumption of regularity in the operations of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), which resulted to killing of Albuera Mayor Ronaldo Espinosa and Raul Yap, signals the outcome of any independent, much less official, probe on the incident. Such statements will be taken as a go-signal for the exoneration of the …
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We condemn the nine Supreme Court justices for their abominable decision allowing a hero’s burial for the dictator Marcos. We also denounce the regimes after EDSA 1, from that of Corazon Aquino to Benigno Aquino III, which failed to hold the Marcoses and their cronies accountable for rights abuses, corruption, and anti-people policies. These US-backed …
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The nine Supreme Court magistrates have betrayed the martyrs and heroes who suffered and died at the hands of state security forces of a tyrannical dictatorship. The nine Supreme Court magistrates have betrayed the whole Filipino nation and our history.
Nineteen political prisoners, not 71, released in relation to peace talks Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay clarified that there have been only nineteen (19) political prisoners released in line with the GRP-NDFP peacetalks, and not 71 as stated by Peace adviser Jesus Dureza, in an article of Cebu Daily Inquirer on October 31, 2016. "Majority …
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A recently formed alliance of national minority groups called Sandugo today filed a complaint at the GRP-Nominated Section in the Joint Secretariat of the GRP-NDFP Joint Monitoring Committee on the Comprehensive Agreement on the Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) on the October 19, 2016 violent dispersal at the US Embassy in …
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“The Philippine National Police continues to implement Oplan Bayanihan, targetting activist farmers resisting landgrabbing, now in the guise of the so-called war against drugs,” Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay said, as farmers in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan were recently arrested and detained for charges in relation to the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. …
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