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While there are unconfirmed reports on a warrant of arrest against former President Rodrigo Duterte, KARAPATAN believes that steps to make him and his co-conspirators accountable for grave human rights violations, through international or domestic mechanisms, are long overdue and that any effort towards redress should be done immediately. Official police records put the number …
First, it was national security adviser Eduardo Año and officials of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) who denounced UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan for calling for the abolition of the NTF-ELCAC. This time around, it is Sen. Imee Marcos who joins the fray, questioning Ms. Khan’s recommendation to do …
KARAPATAN on NTF-ELCAC, Imee Marcos’ statements regarding UNSR Khan’s findings Read More »
The Marcos Jr. regime’s rejection of UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression Irene Khan’s initial recommendations on the abolition of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), as well as its deceitful prospective renaming of the notorious task force further expose its intent and design to inflict fascist …
Human rights alliance Karapatan welcomes the significant initial findings of UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression Irene Khan during her ten-day official visit in the Philippines. We thank Ms. Khan for the meetings she had with civil society and people’s organizations, survivors, victims and their kin, representatives of peasant and indigenous communities, …
KARAPATAN welcomes UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan’s recom to abolish NTF-ELCAC Read More »
“We hope that UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression Irene Khan will support our calls to achieve justice and push back against attacks on freedom of expression, press freedom, and human rights in the country.” Tanggol Bayi, a network of women human rights defenders in the Philippines, made the statement as they …
It is no surprise that the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has welcomed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recommendation to file grave oral defamation charges against environmental activists Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro. Obviously, the NTF-ELCAC could not live down the fact that Jhed and Jonila were able to turn …
KARAPATAN urges the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and the House of Representatives and Senate human rights committees to conduct thoroughgoing investigations in view of the revelations by whistleblowers Arturo Lascañas and Edgar Matobato that former president Rodrigo Duterte, his daughter Sara and cronies Ronald dela Rosa and Christopher “Bong” Go and others in Duterte’s …
KARAPATAN assails attempts by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) to entice intellectuals based in the University of the Philippines College of Science (UPCS) to conduct researches, results of such could be used in the development of weapons and technologies beneficial to US-involved wars and offensives. The strategy, said the AFOSR, has …
KARAPATAN scores US Air Force forum in UP Diliman Read More »
Karapatan Central Visayas slams the lies and delusions declared by Atty. Hue Jyro Go, Chief of Staff for the Presidential Task Force on Media Security, during their meeting with UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan yesterday last January 29. The people’s growing movement is in stark contrast to what the fascist institution parroted. The Police Regional …
Dear friends, We are sharing this letter by environmental activists Jhed Reiyanna Tamano and Jonila Castro to the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression Irene Khan. Please see attached copy as well as the inline text of the letter below. Thank you very much. Karapatan Public Information Desk Dear Ms. Irene Khan, …
