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Human rights alliance KARAPATAN strongly condemns the demolition and forced eviction of the Mangyan-Iraya community in Sitio Malatabako, Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro. “We condemn the destruction of homes and displacement of Indigenous families from their ancestral land. What is really disturbing is how the company was able to aggressively take control of land that …

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“Hindi po kasalanan ang magsilbi sa bayan. Walong taon na akong nakakulong, sana ay lumaya na ako (To serve the people is not a crime. I have been in prison for eight years, I hope I will be free).” These were the words of Juan Alexander “Bob” Reyes when he took the witness stand before …

Free labor organizer Juan Alexander “Bob” Reyes! Read More »

KARAPATAN strongly denounced the decision of the Baguio City Regional Trial Court Branch 78 denying the petition for certiorari filed by leaders of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) – Windel Bolinget, Sarah Abellon-Alikes, Jennifer Awingan, and Stephen Tauli – challenging their arbitrary and baseless terrorist designation and raising constitutional questions against the draconian Anti-Terrorism Act …

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KARAPATAN has never been evasive or dishonest about its mandate of monitoring, documenting, exposing and denouncing violations of human rights, which, since its establishment in 1995, have consistently involved state actors as perpetrators. When state actors who have the obligation to respect, protect and uphold human rights brandish their power to do the opposite, it …

No Silence Amidst Repression Read More »

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN strongly condemns the reckless and dangerous act of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Cateel Municipal Police Station in Davao Oriental for tagging Karapatan-Southern Mindanao Region (SMR) Deputy Secretary General Grecian Asoy, and leaders of youth and people’s organizations as “Active Wanted Persons” through posts published on its official Facebook page on …

KARAPATAN hits malicious tagging of regional officer, rights defenders as “Active Wanted Persons” in Davao Oriental Read More »

“The Marcos Jr. administration and NTF-ELCAC can spend billions manufacturing propaganda and congratulating themselves, but their classic gaslighting can never erase the crisis in Negros, and the people’s resistance to oppression and injustice,” KARAPATAN said. Human rights alliance KARAPATAN slammed the latest statement of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) …

KARAPATAN on NTF-ELCAC statement: Gaslighting cannot hide crisis in Negros Read More »

The hacienderos of Negros represented by the United Sugar Producers Federation (UNIFED) have joined the cacophony of fascists from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Department of National Defense (DND) and the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), along with bureaucrat capitalists in propagating the terror-grooming narrative as the …

KARAPATAN: Band of fascists in Negros deflects attention from social realities Read More »

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN slammed Senator Alan Peter Cayetano and Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. for their continuing defense of state violence and militarist policies, saying both officials have “zero credibility on human rights, justice, and genuine peace.” “After letting an international fugitive escape arrest, the senator-turned-EJK-cheerleader is once again scraping the bottom of the …

KARAPATAN Denounces Cayetano’s Defense of Drug War, Teodoro’s Rejection of Peace Talks Read More »

KARAPATAN recently slammed the malicious and absurd reports alluding to “three activist groups” allegedly behind the violent incidents during the September 21, 2026 anti-corruption rally in Manila. “Such baseless and contorted allegations seem to villify legitimate dissent, while diverting public attention from the issues of massive government corruption and the violent dispersal resulting in grave …

KARAPATAN: Stop scapegoating activists, hold corrupt officials accountable Read More »

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN lambasted the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for attempting to discredit the recently concluded National Fact Finding and Solidarity Mission (NFFSM) in Toboso, Negros Occidental, while recycling narratives that further expose inconsistencies in the military’s version of events surrounding the Toboso massacre. The NFFSM, joined by more than a hundred …

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