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Marcos Jr.’s EO 23 task force to whitewash labor rights violations

The Executive Order 23 (EO 23)-created inter-agency committee tasked to probe the extrajudicial killings and harassment of workers will simply go the way of other investigative bodies created earlier for similar purposes. It will become nothing more than an elaborate instrument to temporarily mollify the people’s anger and eventually whitewash the State’s responsibility for extrajudicial …

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Karapatan condemns IHL, rights violations in Samar, Negros and Kalinga

Karapatan condemns in the strongest terms the growing cases of violations of human rights and international humanitarian law (IHL) where civilians are increasingly being victimized in the Marcos Jr. regime’s brutal counter-insurgency war. The latest case that has come to our attention is the killing of two civilians in Barangay Sangay, Palapag, Northern Samar. According …

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On Marcos Jr.’s recent statements on the rights abuses in Duterte’s drug war

Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s recent publicly expressed views citing “abuses by certain elements in the government” in the previous administration’s anti-drug campaign and “some concerns” on the human rights situation in the Philippines during the Duterte administration betray his doubletalk in addressing persistent questions on justice and accountability of the previous administration. Out of the thousands …

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Marcos Jr. endangering Filipinos by serving US strategic interests – Karapatan

Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s upcoming meeting in Washington with US President Joe Biden will further deepen the unequal relations between the two governments, to the detriment of the Filipino people’s interest. Marcos Jr. does the US’ bidding in ensuring the US’ strategic military and political interests in the Asia-Pacific region by increasing US troops …

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Karapatan welcomes CHR probe of Tiamzons’ killing, urges investigation of other war crimes

Human rights alliance Karapatan welcomed the announcement by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) that it will investigate allegations that National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultants Benito Tiamzon and Wilma Austria-Tiamzon were tortured and intentionally killed by the military, adding that it will be doing so in accordance with its mandate and duty to …

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Karapatan condemns killing of NDFP consultant Rogelio Posadas, disappearance of 3 others

Human rights alliance Karapatan condemned the killing of National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Negros peace consultant Rogelio Posadas, 56, who was allegedly slain in an encounter with the military on April 20, 2023 in Binalbagan, Negros Occidental. Posadas was reported missing on the evening of April 19 when he failed to show up at his …

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Karapatan condemns brutal killing of Benito and Wilma Tiamzon and companions, calls for independent probe

Human rights alliance Karapatan condemned the brutal killing of Benito Tiamzon, peacetalks panel member of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, NDFP peace consultant Wilma Austria-Tiamzon, and eight companions. The Tiamzons’ death along with eight others on August 21, 2022 was confirmed in a special issue of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) …

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