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The ‘lockdown’ or ‘standoff’ in the Senate last night, however they call it now, is part of the disgusting and sickening turn of events that embodies our revoltingly rotten political system – from the House of Representatives’ impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte, to the leadership change in the Senate geared towards supporting Sara in …
“Heads must roll over Bato dela Rosa’s escape from the Senate. Accountability does not stop with the senators involved — it extends all the way to the Marcos Jr. and his state forces. They allowed an international fugitive to slip away, making a mockery of the Filipino people’s demand that he be arrested and made …
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Human rights alliance KARAPATAN strongly opposed anew the application of Cecilyn Burgos-Villavert for appointment as Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals or the Court of Tax Appeals, saying her judicial record of abuse and political persecution makes her ever unfit for higher position in the judiciary. “No matter how many times she applies for …
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Human rights group KARAPATAN strongly condemned the Philippine Senate’s decision to place Senator Ronald dela Rosa under so-called “custody” following the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s public announcement of an arrest warrant tied to charges arising from the bloody drug war under former president Rodrigo Duterte. “You’re keeping a criminal who killed thousands,” KARAPATAN said, denouncing …
Rights group KARAPATAN hit the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), calling its latest “tirade of lies” a desperate attempt to reinforce its flimsy encounter narrative on the killing of the Negros 19. “The hideous red-tagging agency of the Marcos Jr. government is scrambling to cover up and evade accountability, when …
Despite no public warrants issued by the International Criminal Court, Karapatan reiterates its call for the immediate arrest of Senator Ronald dela Rosa, one of the principal implementers of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody “drug war,” and other high officials of the Philippine National Police. Dela Rosa openly and mockingly dared the ICC to arrest …
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KARAPATAN deplores Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s chairship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the ASEAN Ministerial Forum opens today, May 7, 2026 in Cebu, Philippines, and his pursuit of a seat at the United Nations Security Council as shameful acts of window dressing, given his sordid human rights record and his being a lapdog …
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KARAPATAN condemned the firing of a Tomahawk missile from the Tacloban City Airport towards a target in Laur, Nueva Ecija, an area 530 kilometers away. Said KARAPATAN secretary general Cristina Palabay, the missile launch from a civilian facility in Leyte towards a civilian community in Nueva Ecija underscores the fact that the entire country now …
KARAPATAN welcomes the recently publicized findings and recommendations of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) nationwide public inquiry conducted on red-tagging, which affirmed the widespread, harmful and dangerous consequences of red-tagging on people’s lives, liberty and security, especially those exercising their right to dissent, to expression, assembly and association. Although the inquiry report falls short …
KARAPATAN deplored statements made by Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro objecting to the resumption of the Marcos administration’s peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. “Nowhere in his statements did he mention the need to address the root causes that have been driving the armed conflict in the country,” said KARAPATAN deputy secretary …
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