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“His government is shameless. He is impunity personified. His name is Noynoy ‘Impunity’ Aquino,” Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general said on the eve of the International Day to End Impunity, November 23. “There is madness going on right before our eyes with witnesses and potential witnesses being killed one by one. The Ampatuans may be …
Karapatan today reiterated its call to release political prisoner Miradel Torres. The call for release has become more urgent now. Torres gave birth to a 2.8 kg. baby boy at the Philippine General Hospital yesterday at 6:31 p.m. Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general said, “Both Miradel and the baby boy do not deserve to be …
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Political prisoner Maria Miradel Torres, 26, is expected to deliver her baby today, November 19, 2014. She was brought to the Philippine General Hospital yesterday for a check-up but she was immediately admitted after undergoing medical examination.
Higaonon Nermie Lapatis is a farmer from Valencia, Bukidnon. She is among the more than 300 farmers and indigenous peoples who are with the Manilakbayan ng Mindanao. So far, they have travelled more than a thousand kilometres now going to Metro Manila.
“Sharing similar experiences of landlessness, government neglect and repression, Mindanao and the Bicol region called for an end to BS Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan. The two areas took the worst blows of military operations and the consequent human rights violations,” said Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general.
As protest-marchers of the Manilakbayan ng Mindanao are expected to set foot in Southern Tagalog region this week, the people of Quezon and various sectors from the region have vowed to unite with their Mindanao counterparts on their march against militarization and landlessness.
“The plight of the farm workers in Hacienda Luisita reflects the picture of the whole Philippine society under the BS Aquino presidency,” Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general said. “The inhuman PhP9.50 daily wage of workers’, the use of all state machineries such as the military and paramilitary against the farm workers, the use of law …
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Davao City—Contingents from Southern Mindanao, Cotabato, and Socksargen kicked off Manilakbayan ng Mindanao 2014 with a protest action in front of Eastern Mindanao Command (EastMinCom) – Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Headquarters in Panacan, Davao City today.
Ampatuan massacre (Nov. 13, 2009). Hacienda Luisita massacre (Nov. 16, 2004). Supertyphoon Yolanda (Nov. 8, 2013). Murder of botanist Leonard Co and his companions (Nov. 15, 2010). Murder of campus journalist and human rights worker Benjaline Hernandez (birthday on Nov. 21). The brutal killing of Jennifer Laude (40th day on Nov. 20, 2014). The …
Open Letter to President Benigno Aquino III–End Impunity Now! Read More »
Karapatan and members of the Unyon ng mga Mangagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA) held a protest action today at the Aquino residence in Times Street, Quezon City as part of the 10th year observance of the bloody Hacienda Luisita massacre.
