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KARAPATAN strongly condemned the spate of attacks on human rights defenders in Mindanao and called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to conduct a thoroughgoing probe. Warren Cahayag, one of the founding paralegals of the Union of Peoples Lawyers in Mindanao (UPLM) in 2005, was shot five times by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Barangay Calumpang, …

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KARAPATAN welcomes the Court of Appeals decision granting the privileges of the writs of amparo and habeas data in favor of the daughters of Felix Salaveria Jr., an indigenous people’s activist and cycling advocate who was abducted on August 28, 2024 and has been missing since then. The decision of the Former Thirteenth Division of …

Rights group welcomes recent CA decision on missing activist, scores gov’t failure to investigate and surface desaparecidos Read More »

“Ikaw ang mahiya, kayo ang mahiya sa inyong mga krimen at pagtatakip ng katototahanan sa mamamayang Pilipino. Shame on Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s for covering up truths and crimes against the people in his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA),” said human rights alliance KARAPATAN. “Marcos had the gall to call out those who plunder …

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Whatever glittering words Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivers in his third State of the Nation Address (SONA) will fail to enthrall. Casting a pall on his SONA is the calamitous effect his three-year rule has had on the people’s civil and political rights. Contrary to his cultivated image of a president who respects human rights, Marcos …

Marcos Jr.’s three-year presidency: Calamitous to people’s rights Read More »

“The ‘state of calamity’ in Mindoro goes beyond the effects of the typhoons that have recently devastated the island. The people of the island, including the indigenous Mangyan communities, have been subjected to varying forms and levels of human rights violations due to intensified militarization as well as the destructive operations of big corporations that …

KARAPATAN: Situation of Mindoreños embodies the State of the Nation under Marcos Jr. Read More »

KARAPATAN assailed a bill filed by Sen. Imee Marcos, dubbed the President Rodrigo R. Duterte Act if passed into law, prohibiting the transfer of individuals within Philippine territory to any foreign entity not recognized through a treaty, or without the person’s consent or a local court order. The bill references Duterte’s arrest by the Interpol …

KARAPATAN slams Imee’s President Rodrigo Duterte bill Read More »

KARAPATAN has followed up Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla’s latest pronouncements of an intersection between the perpetrators of the drug war-related killings and the abductors and likely murderers of the “missing sabungeros,” saying that “these may be the same people involved in the enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killings of activists.” Information disclosed by a whistleblower to …

KARAPATAN to Justice Dep’t: Probe police role in enforced disappearance, EJKs of activists Read More »

Karapatan assailed the renewed security arrangements entered into by Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in his state visit to the United States that would redound to more US military funding and armaments for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for use in its brutal counter-insurgency war. Said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay, “In meetings between US …

Marcos-Trump agreements during state visit will worsen rights situation in PH Read More »