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“Our abduction and disappearance, as well as the experiences of the many victims of fake surrender, are testament to the policy and practice of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in stifling freedoms and violating the rights of the people. To advocate for freedom of expression and opinion is to …
“The Ferdinand Marcos Jr. administration’s counter-insurgency program violates the Filipino people’s freedom of expression and opinion,” said Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay, in a meeting yesterday, January 23, 2024, of human rights and people’s organizations with UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression Irene Khan. …
KARAPATAN condemns the escalating attacks against peasant activists and leaders perpetrated by State security forces. On January 17, 2024, two peasant activists were gunned down in Negros Occidental by elements of the 62nd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army. According to reports reaching Karapatan, Dionisio Baloy, 67, a member of the Kaisahan sa Gamay’ng Mag-uuma …
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“Stop the fakery and cut the show,” thus said rights group KARAPATAN after the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that the visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion in the country shows the Philippine government’s “open, sustained and sincere cooperation…with bilateral and regional partners and the …
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The military’s announcement of the creation of the AFP Cyber Security Group under the Civil Relations Service days before the arrival in the country of UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression Irene Kahn is a laughable, if not desperate, attempt to portray itself as the victim rather than the perpetrator of systematic cyber-attacks against …
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Whether reports of the presence of investigators from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Philippines is true or not, Karapatan reiterates its call to the ICC prosecutors to conclude their investigation with dispatch and formally indict former president Rodrigo Duterte and his co-conspirators for their responsibility in the bloody war on drugs. The Filipino …
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“The situation is bleak, if not worse, especially with the ongoing and persistent attacks against journalists, artists, members of the academe, freedom of expression advocates and the people, in general, due to their critical views and opinions on the current state of affairs in the Philippines,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay, regarding statements made …
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KARAPATAN stands in solidarity with the thousands of jeepney drivers and operators in their struggle against the Marcos Jr. regime’s campaign to phase out jeepneys as a form of cheap mass transport. The scheme, which masquerades as a transport modernization program, will demolish the livelihoods of up to 25,000 jeepney operators and 60,000 jeepney drivers. …
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A week before UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion Irene Khan embarks on an official visit in the Philippines, rights group KARAPATAN joined journalists, artists, members of the academe and freedom of expression advocates in urging Ms. Khan to investigate the dangerous patterns on violations on the people’s freedom of expression and …
Karapatan deplores the dismissal by the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office of ACT Teachers’ Partylist Rep. France Castro’s complaint of grave threats against former Pres. Rodrigo Duterte. In dismissing the complaint, the prosecutor claimed that Duterte was not serious in hurling death threats against Castro and was merely joking. To receive such threats from Duterte, however, …
Karapatan scores QC prosecutor’s dismissal of Castro’s complaint vs Duterte Read More »
