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Photo from Office of the Ombudsman/Facebook September 12, 2023 Karapatan views with grave concern Ombudsman Samuel Martires’ statements in yesterday’s budget deliberations which call for greater opaqueness rather than transparency in government transactions. This, at a time when we are being buffeted by reports of graft, massive corruption in high places and misuse and abuse …

Concerns raised on Ombudsman’s recent statements during budget deliberations Read More »

September 9, 2023 Karapatan condemns in the strongest possible terms the abduction and disappearance of Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano, two young environmental defenders who went missing in Barangay Lati, Orion, Bataan on the night of September 2, 2023.  We view with grave concern the growing number of the involuntarily disappeared under the current regime. …

Surface Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano! Read More »

Photo from CNN Philippines September 8, 2023 Karapatan calls on lawmakers to push for an increased and substantial budget for the Commission on Human Rights to be able to perform its mandate in the protection of human rights in the Philippines, as we express our disappointment with the news that in the face of growing …

Karapatan calls for increased budget for CHR, rechanneling of CIFs to CHR Read More »

September 7, 2023 Karapatan denounces the Anti-Terrorism Act (Republic Act No. 11479) and the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act (Republic Act No. 10168) as martial law instruments constituting grave attacks against the Filipino people’s democratic and civil rights, and demands their repeal.  Among the most alarming aspects of these laws are provisions that allow …

Karapatan to Marcos Jr. admin: #JunkTerrorLaws Read More »

Photo from X/@johnpeterangelo September 4, 2023 Karapatan denounces the vicious weaponization of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), particularly against young activists and human rights defenders in Southern Tagalog.  The latest victim is John Peter Angelo “Jpeg” Garcia, a nominee for University Student Regent from the University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) and current chair of the …

Rights group slams wrongful implication of another youth leader in Southern Tagalog in terror law case Read More »

September 2, 2023 Karapatan denounces the indecent haste with which the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations terminated the deliberations on the proposed budget of the Office of the Vice President (OVP), citing “parliamentary courtesy”. After a 10-minute audio-visual presentation by Vice President Sara Duterte, Senior Deputy Majority Leader Sandro Marcos immediately moved to end …

Karapatan: No transparency in OVP budget deliberations Read More »

Photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat September 1, 2023 The “whole of nation approach” of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) is nothing more than a direct subversion of the concept of the supremacy of the role of citizens and civilian authority over the government’s militarist goals and means. It is plain …

Karapatan slams NTF-ELCAC’s whole of nation approach, airs grave concern on inclusion of a CBCP commission in the TF’s execom Read More »