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Rights group skeptical over new task force on drug war

KARAPATAN expressed skepticism over Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla’s newly created task force to probe extrajudicial killings (EJK) under the Duterte regime’s war on drugs. “Riddling the horizon with task forces has so far not been useful in dispensing justice for the victims,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay. “We seriously doubt that Secretary Remulla’s …

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KARAPATAN presses release of journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, two others

Photo: PUP Catalyst KARAPATAN expressed its unflinching support for detained community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, who is scheduled to testify in her defense today, November 11, 2024 at Leyte Regional Trial Court Branch 45, as well as development worker Mariel Domequil and KARAPATAN human rights worker Alexander Philip Abinguna. Cumpio, a community journalist, was arrested …

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Rights groups emphasize Duterte’s accountability in EJKs of activists, peace consultants

Rights groups Hustisya and Karapatan firmly support the decision of massacre victims from Southern Tagalog to bring their case to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) after failing to attain justice from Philippine courts. Those who filed a complaint with the UNHRC are Rosenda Lemita, mother of fisherfolk organizer Ana Marie Lemita-Evangelista, and Liezl …

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Trump’s comeback as US prexy means continued imperialist warmongering in Asia, rights violations in PH

The recently concluded US elections that saw Donald Trump make a comeback as president is not expected to cause a major shift in the master-puppet relationship between the US and the Philippines. The difference between a Democrat and a Republican US president is much like the difference between two cola brands—the fizz may set them …

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Rights group denounces terror cases vs Ilocano dev’t workers

KARAPATAN throws its full support behind development workers from Ilocos who are the latest victims of the state’s weaponization of anti-terror legislation. Petronila Guzman and Lenville Salvador, board members of Kaduami (Katinnulong Daguiti Umili ti Amianan), and Myrna Zapanta, a lay worker and member of the secretariat of the Ilocos Regional Ecumenical Council (IREC), received …

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KARAPATAN to HOR Quadcomm: Include probe on EJKs in Duterte’s counterinsurgency war

Former Pres. Rodrigo Duterte has decided not to attend today’s Quad Committee (Quadcomm) hearings at the House of Representatives, saying that the investigating committee should just refer to the transcript of the Senate hearing, where he made several self-incriminating statements. Since members of the Quadcomm have announced that they have enough damning evidence against Duterte, …

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Surface all desaparecidos!

Today, as the Filipinos all over the country remember their dead, families of the forcibly disappeared will once again find themselves in limbo. Their loved ones’ absence somehow marks their kinship with the bereaved. But setting them apart is the absence of a body to mourn or a grave to visit. Families of the disappeared …

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Rights group welcomes temporary protection order for abduction survivor Eco Dangla

Karapatan welcomes the issuance of a temporary protection order for an activist who survived abduction earlier this year, but added that victims must also seek other means to assert their rights. In an en banc resolution dated September 9, 2024 but released yesterday, the Supreme Court took the first step in granting petitioner Francisco “Eco” …

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