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The Philippine human rights alliance KARAPATAN welcomed the planned probe on extrajudicial killings of former soldier and now senator-elect Antonio Trillanes. KARAPATAN Secretary General Marie Hilao-Enriquez said, “We laud Senator Trillanes for this move to put the Arroyo administration to task for the unabated extrajudicial killings.” KARAPATAN likewise welcomes the pronouncements made by top anti-Arroyo …

Trillanes probe asked to open safehouses, secret detention places Read More »

"It’s such a shame that the Dutch ambassador dismissed an international juridical body as a kangaroo court.  He had just faulted victims for filing their complaints at the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT)." This was the statement of the Philippine human rights group Karapatan after Dutch Ambassador Robert Vornis said that the Permanent People’s Tribunal is …

Dutch envoy insults victims by calling PPT a kangaroo court Read More »

Three Filipino human rights advocates are scheduled to testify at a hearing at the US Senate, which was called by Senator Barbara Boxer (Democrat-California), to find ways to end the violence that has claimed the lives of 836 people since President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo assumed the Presidency in 2001. The Subcommittee on East Asian and …

Filipino human right advocates testifying at U.S. Senate hearing on killings in RP Read More »

Human rights groups composed of 49 members and volunteers of Karapatan, Taripnong, KAMP and the Children’s Rehabilitation Center, with an Australian volunteer, complained of harassment by government troops in Cagayan Valley.  The national fact-finding and relief mission was in response to the request to investigate military abuses in the province and to extend assistance to …

Rights group score troops in Cagayan Valley for hampering work of human rights mission Read More »

End the state policy on civilian killings before victims can be in courts without fear. Thus said the human rights group Karapatan in the wake of a Supreme Court order to designate special courts that will try cases of extrajudicial killings. The rights campaigners expressed that the special courts scheme is just a way of …

End policy on civilian killings before victims can be in courts without fear – Karapatan Read More »

Witnesses and relatives of about 20 victims whose cases were documented by KARAPATAN presented their cases to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings Mr. Philip Alston at an undisclosed place this morning. Among the cases presented were those of Armando Javier, Jr. and Romeo Malabanan, victims of extrajudicial killings. Armando and his wife were …

Victims, rights groups presented cases to UNSR Mr. Alston Read More »