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Investigate secret detention facilities, torture cases in the Philippines

In time for the ongoing visit of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture in the Philippines from December 3 to 14, 2023, human rights alliance Karapatan recommended “an independent, thorough and credible investigation on the policies and practices of State security forces in the country that engender torture and other cruel, degrading and …

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SELDA: Groups renew call for immediate, unconditional release of political prisoners

The Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban Sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners, alongside various human rights and people’s organizations, gathered at the Department of Justice (DOJ) on December 5, 2023 to call on the Marcos Jr. administration for the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners on just and humanitarian …

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Abolish NTF-ELCAC, stop State-sponsored bombings and IHL violations! 

Karapatan joined other organizations from the indigenous people, peasants, environmental defenders and church people in calling for a stop to State-sponsored aerial and artillery bombings of communities in the course of the Marcos Jr. regime’s brutal counter-insurgency war as well as other grave violations of human rights and International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The protesting organizations …

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Karapatan statement on the bombing at the Mindanao State University

Karapatan condemns the bombing at the Mindanao State University (MSU) in Marawi City yesterday, December 3, 2023, that killed at least four persons and injured scores of others. We offer our sympathies to the victims and their families.  Attacks on civilians in schools during a religious service are unacceptable. An independent, thorough and evidence-based investigation …

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SELDA: Release all political prisoners!

The Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners in the Philippines, extends its solidarity with the International League of Peoples’ Struggles and all oppressed peoples in commemorating the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War today, December 3. Together with ILPS member-organizations worldwide, …

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UDHR75 in the Philippines: HR Day 2023 to be marked with calls vs rights violations and imperialist war of aggression

Human rights alliance Karapatan and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) kicks off the ten-day commemoration of International Human Rights Day with a press conference, with victims-survivors of human rights violations and those coming from communities under attack presenting their views on the current human rights situation in the country. Joining the panel are environmental activists and …

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Stop the political persecution of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines!

Karapatan renewed its call on the Marcos Jr. government to stop the political persecution of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP), as the RMP braced for another hearing today, November 30, 2023, on the criminal and civil forfeiture cases it is facing for alleged violation of Republic Act No. 10168 or the Terrorism Financing …

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Karapatan commemorates Bonifacio Day with call to resolve roots of armed conflict, resume GRP-NDFP peace talks

Today, November 30, we mark not just the birth of national hero and revolutionary Andres Bonifacio; above all, we commemorate his courageous leadership of the Katipunan and the armed revolution they waged for national liberation against Spanish colonial rule. Nevertheless, the Filipino people’s struggle for national liberation persists to this day precisely because its causes …

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