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Karapatan to Marcos Jr.: Surface the eight desaparecidos under your watch

Activists, friends and kin of the involuntarily disappeared massed up at the Court of Appeals building in Manila this Tuesday to mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Led by Desaparecidos, an organization of families and friends of victims of involuntary disappearance, the gathering served as a stark reminder of the continuing …

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Karapatan decries renewed judicial harassment vs leaders, allies 

“The attempt of former National Security Adviser Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. and Gen. Eduardo Año, NTF-ELCAC co-vice chair and current security adviser, to pursue the judicial harassment against Karapatan through this trumped-up and malicious charges of perjury is a desperate act intended to hound human rights defenders. Sa madaling salita, tirang pikon itong ginagawa nila,” said …

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Rights group condemns another police killing in Rodriguez, Rizal

Photo by Charie Abarca/Inquirer.net “The killing of 15-year-old John Frances Ompad on August 20 by a policeman is the second in a row this month,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay. On August 2, 2023, 17-year-old Jemboy Baltazar was killed by policemen in Navotas City in a supposed case of mistaken identity.  Ompad’s 19-year-old brother …

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Solidarity message to the 54th anniversary of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines

Cristina Palabay, Karapatan Secretary General, August 25, 2023 Love that is real and active! I read the said line in publications of the Rural Missionaries in the Philippines in Northern Mindanao more than a decade ago, and I can’t get enough of the essence and the reality of that line that is the history and …

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Former political prisoners decry inhuman and meager budget for food, medicines of those in jail

The Samahan ng Ex-detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners, decried the skewed and disproportionate fiscal priorities of the Marcos Jr. administration in its proposals for the national budget for 2024, as it pointed out that the meager budget allocation for prisons remains at subhuman levels. “Nelson Mandela, a …

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Rights group slams police complaint vs artists on effigy burning

Human rights alliance Karapatan called on the Anonas Police Station to “stop hiding behind their fake concern for the environment and public health” as the group called for the junking of the complaint filed by Police Staff Sergeant Mario Sembrano and Police Corporal Paolo Navarro against against progressive artist Max Santiago and three staff of …

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Spate of threats continues following release of Marcos Jr.’s national security policy 

Photo by Darren Langit/Rappler “The new national security policy (NSP) further enables threats, including redtagging and vilification, against rights defenders and activists,” said human rights alliance Karapatan, as it condemned the recent spate of incidents following Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s approval of the NSP 2023-2028.  Warning that the NSP, signed on August 10, 2023 …

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Karapatan slams killing in Navotas City, decries absence of justice in killings of Zara Alvarez and Randy Echanis

Photo by Lucky Dela Rosa/Philippine Collegian August 16, 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan condemned the killing by policemen in Navotas City of a minor two weeks ago even as it decried the absence of justice in the killings of its human rights worker Zara Alvarez and peace consultant Randall Echanis.  Seventeen-year-old Jemboy Baltazar was shot …

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Bombings, other IHL violations to escalate as BBM unveils NSP 2023-2028

Photo from Amihan August 15, 2023 The issuance by Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the National Security Policy (NSP) 2023-2028 bodes ill for the people’s human rights and signals the further escalation of bombings and other grave violations of international humanitarian law (IHL). Already, the issuance of the NSP, whose avowed purpose is to “address national …

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