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She had set them free, they who have trampled human dignity. That is how the human rights group Karapatan sees the policy of President Arroyo towards convicted, unrepentant rapists and her military officials accused of atrocities against civilians. Karapatan said that perhaps the only difference is that Arroyo wanted to give plum positions to her …
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KARAPATAN human rights workers all over the country join the Pitao family and the Filipino people in mourning the brutal death of Rebelyn Pitao. Words are not enough to express our sympathies for Rebelyn’s family and our outrage over the violence that state security forces have inflicted upon her.
Karapatan strongly condemns the abhorrent and despicable abduction and summary execution of Rebelyn M. Pitao, the 20 year-old daughter of Leoncio Pitao a.k.a. New People’s Army (NPA) Commander Parago. “She being the daughter of a member of an armed party to the conflict does not warrant the atrocity done to her. The manner and pattern …
In the observance of 60th Year of the UDHR Karapatan reports on state of Philippine human rights, emphasizes Arroyo accountability The biggest human rights network in the Philippines today released its annual report on the human rights situation under the watch of the Arroyo administration. Karapatan presented to the public its 2008 Human Rights …
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Philippine human rights umbrella Karapatan kicked off the campaign on human rights defenders with a Benefit Dinner held at the Quezon City Sports Club during the commemoration of the International Women Human Rights Defenders Day on November 29, 2008.
The verdict is out. More than two years after the families of slain human rights defenders Eden Marcellana and Eddie Gumanoy filed a complaint against the Arroyo government, a United Nations body ruled that the latter is guilty of violating primarily the right to life of said human rights defenders and was negligent in providing …
The UN Human Rights Committee, the UN treaty body monitoring the States parties’ compliance to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), has found the Philippine government guilty of violating primarily the right to life of human rights defenders Eden Marcellana and Eddie Gumanoy. The Committee’s Views were put out on October 30, …
The human rights alliance Karapatan is outraged by the recent legal offensive of the Macapagal-Arroyo administration against the legal democratic organizations particularly in Southern Tagalog, including two of its officials namely Karapatan-Southern Tagalog Secretary General Doris Cuario and Karapatan-Batangas Coordinator Dina Capetillo among those falsely accused.
Anthropologists today (October 14, 2008) found pieces of burnt human bones in the vicinity of the former detachment of the 24th IBPA (Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army) in Brgy. Bliss, Limay, Bataan. The bones where found at the site where witness-survivor Raymond Manalo said he saw farmer Manuel Merino being burned by soldiers sometime …
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CHR Chairperson Leila de Lima inspects the excavation site with Karapatan Secretary General Marie Hilao-Enriquez on October 13, 2008 at the former 24th IBPA detachment in Brgy. Bliss Limay, Bataan. A week after the Supreme Court upheld a Court of Appeals (CA) decision granting the privilege of the writ of amparo to the …
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