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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 …
KARAPATAN to Senator Bato dela Rosa: Your days of imupunity are numbered Read More »
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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KARAPATAN lambasted a security alert from the US Embassy issued after two American citizens were among 19 persons killed in a military attack in Toboso, Negros Occidental on April 19, 2026, saying it sounded like it was straight out of a red- and terror-tagging playbook. KARAPATAN national council member Raoul Manuel noted that the alert …
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This year’s commemoration of International Workers’ Day comes at a time when the working people in the Philippines and elsewhere in the world are being buffeted both by intensifying fascist attacks and severe economic blows directly resulting from US imperialist aggression and intervention. Two months prior, the US bombed Iran, prompting the latter’s defense through …
Recent reports on a video drone footage indicating that slain New People’s Armyleader Roger Fabillar was alive and possibly rendered hors de combat during the incident, as well as the killing of two minors, ages 15 and 17 years old, further expose the chilling massacre of 19 individuals in Toboso, Negros Occidental. “Marcos’s Armed Forces …
Recent reports on a video drone footage indicating that slain New People’s Army leader Roger Fabillar was alive and possibly rendered hors de combat during the incident, as well as the killing of two minors, ages 15 and 17 years old, further expose the chilling massacre of 19 individuals in Toboso, Negros Occidental. “Marcos’s Armed …
