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KARAPATAN decried the ”unrelenting” human rights violations against activists in Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas and Southern Tagalog the past few weeks. The latest incident, said KARAPATAN secretary general Cristina Palabay, involved the unjust arrest on December 20, 2025 of Carmilo Tabada, former staff of Central Visayas Farmers’ Development Center (FARDEC). Tabada was arrested at his …

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Pilipino The Filipino people will take to the streets once again on December 10th, International Human Rights Day, to denounce the Marcos Jr. regime’s growing violations of human rights and international humanitarian law (IHL) and rage against the large-scale bureaucratic corruption that now marks this government as among the most rotten in the country’s history. …

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On the anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and International Anti-Corruption Day on December 9, eve of International Human Rights Day, rights group KARAPATAN warned that the Marcos Jr. government’s intensifying attacks against human rights defenders and anti-corruption advocates have placed them in a “critical situation.” “State-sponsored terror under Marcos Jr. …

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KARAPATAN renewed its call to abolish the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), as the agency marked its seventh year of existence. “Instead of allocating billions of pesos to this nefarious State terror machine,” said KARAPATAN secretary general Cristina Palabay, “the Filipino people would be better served if such funds were …

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KARAPATAN salutes the Filipino people who marched on the streets on November 30, 2025, and calls on the Filipino people to once more take to the streets in their numbers on December 10th, International Human Rights Day, to demand accountability from the Marcos Jr. regime not just for systemic corruption but for grave civil and …

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KARAPATAN scored acting Schools Division Supt. Nerissa Lomeda for trying to foist puppet teachers’ associations to replace the Manila Public School Teachers’ Association (MPSTA) and threatening NCR teachers with administrative cases. The twin threats were attempts to derail in Manila a Metro Manila-wide teachers’ sit-down strike against corruption today, November 28, 2025. The sit-down strike …

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