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Joint statement: Standing in solidarity with Filipino human rights defenders

Dear friends, We are releasing this statement by 64 organizations and 3 individuals on the judicial harassment against national leaders of Karapatan, the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines and Gabriela, in relation to the upcoming promulgation of the case of perjury filed by former National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon, Jr. at the Metropolitan Trial Court …

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Karapatan reissues call for NTF-ELCAC abolition, hits restoration of its budget

In a protest action at the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency office on the 4th year of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), human rights alliance Karapatan reiterated its call for the abolition of the task force and slammed the bicameral conference committee for restoring the cuts to NTF-ELCAC’s PhP10-billion budget …

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Karapatan: End criminalization of dissent, free all political prisoners!

Human rights alliance Karapatan reiterated calls for an end to the criminalization of dissent and the release of all political prisoners in the country, as it marked the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners on December 3, 2022. Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said that there are hundreds of political prisoners in various detention …

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Decriminalization of cyber libel, libel pushed, after guilty verdict vs Cordillera indigenous people’s leader

Human rights alliance Karapatan today decried the guilty verdict of Baguio City Regional Trial Court Branch 59 against Cordillera People’s Alliance Secretary General Sarah Dekdeken in the cyber libel charges against her by former Cordillera Police Chief R’win Pagkalinawan, as the group said that her case is “proof that cyber libel and libel laws in …

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Karapatan calls on CHR to conduct independent probe of reported killing of NDF consultant, peasant organizer in Negros

Human rights alliance Karapatan today called on the Commission on Human Rights to conduct an independent investigation into the reported summary execution of peasant advocate Ericson Acosta, a writer and consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, and his companion, peasant organizer Joseph Jimenez of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, in Kabankalan City, …

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Statement on the 159th birth anniversary of Filipino people’s hero Andres Bonifacio

This year’s commemoration of the 159th birth anniversary of Andres Bonifacio Day should be taken as an opportunity to re-learn and live out our people’s history — that the struggle for national independence and against all forms of oppression by foreign powers and the local ruling classes is a struggle for human rights and dignity …

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Tanggol Bayi and Karapatan Statement on International Women Human Rights Defenders’ Day

Today, on International Women Human Rights Defenders’ Day, Tanggol Bayi and Karapatan salute all women who have tirelessly worked and contributed to the continuing struggle for women’s rights, human rights and freedoms. In the Philippines and all over the world, the recent years are the most challenging for women human rights defenders. Attacks and threats …

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Int’l community prods PH gov’t to enact Human Rights Defenders’ Protection legislation

In a hearing of the Committee on Human Rights of the House of Representatives today, November 29, 2022, Karapatan cited the strong recommendations of various member States of the UN General Assembly for the enactment of a legislation for the protection of human rights defenders and on the attacks against activists in the Philippines, during …

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Karapatan lambasts PNP claims on ‘working justice system’

Human rights alliance Karapatan took strong exception to claims by the Philippine National Police that the recent conviction of a Caloocan City policeman for torture and planting of evidence in relation a five-year old drug war-related killing forms proof that “the Philippine justice system is working.” The murder cases filed against the policeman, PO1 Jeffrey …

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Karapatan reiterates call for reallocation of confidential, intelligence funds for social services, aid to poor families

Human rights alliance Karapatan assailed the billions of pesos of “confidential and intelligence funds” (CIF) being allocated to a number of government agencies even as much-needed social services and projects lack funding and the country is reeling from a gargantuan national debt of PhP10.13 trillion. The group renewed its call to reallocate such funds to …

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