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Martial Law victims, kin on National Heroes’ Day: #MarcosNoHero #SurfaceDesaparecidos

“The best way to observe National Heroes’ Day this time around is to gather together and denounce the scheme to foist upon the Filipino people the fraudulent heroism of the late, unlamented Ferdinand Marcos. Marcos is no hero; he is, in fact, a heel – and that is an understatement,” Bonifacio Ilagan, convenor of the …

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Drugs can be eliminated without curtailing rights

Karapatan Position Paper Submitted to the Public Hearing of the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights August 22-23, 2016 | by Cristina Palabay, Secretary General, Karapatan Pres. Rodrigo Duterte has repeatedly stated that one of the biggest problems in Philippine society is the proliferation of illegal drugs and the evils that come with …

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Peace Talks should pave way for Substantive Issues, Release of Remaining Political Prisoners

Karapatan welcomed the resumption of formal peace talks between the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) today, August 22, 2016, as "an important occasion in the struggle for just and lasting peace in the Philippines."

Karapatan welcomes release of political prisoners

Karapatan welcomes the release of thirteen political prisoners. It is optimistic that recently released consultants of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines will have a meaningful and substantial participation to the resumption of the formal NDFP-GRP peacetalks.

BREAKING NEWS: NDFP consultant Adelberto Silva released

BREAKING NEWS: NDFP consultant Adelberto Silva was released this afternoon from MMDJ-SICA 1. While we welcome Silva’s release, we are concerned over PNP Custodial Center Warden Arnel Apud’s callousness in facilitating the release of NDFP consultants Benito and Wilma Tiamzon, despite the issuance of release orders for them in the four local courts. Release Benito …

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Release of four more detained NDF peace consultants improves climate for the peace talks!

We, National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDF) peace consultants, who are being released today, and others expecting to be released the next few days, in time for the resumption of formal peace talks with the present Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and, in the spirit of overcoming a long-standing main barrier to the peace talks, …

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Consultants’ Expected Release Crucial to Resumption of Peace Talks

Most local courts have already issued favorable orders granting the parallel motions for release on bail for nineteen (18) detained peace consultants of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines and protected persons under the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) and two political prisoners for humanitarian release. The urgent motions were filed …

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Martial Law victims to SC: Stop Marcos burial at LNMB

Martial Law victims led by former political detainees and people’s organizations filed a petition at the Supreme Court Monday, August 15, for Certiorari and Prohibition with Application for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) and/or Writ of Preliminary Injunction to disallow the burial of the deposed dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani …

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Continuing legal offensives vs progressives seek to sabotage peace efforts

Marcos is no hero, martial law imprints should be spurned

For the millions of Filipinos who overthrew the Marcos dictatorship and drove it out of power, Marcos is no hero. For the millions of Filipinos impoverished through sky-rocketing inflation and unemployment rates combined with gargantuan foreign debt while the Marcoses and their cronies siphoned public funds into their vaults, Marcos is no hero. For the …

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