Media Release Type: Press release

Karapatan hails finality of acquittal of its nat’l officers, other rights defenders in perjury charge

November 25, 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan welcomed the recent dismissal of the petition for certiorari filed by former and current National Security Advisers Hermogenes Esperon Jr. and Eduardo Año questioning the acquittal last January 2023 of ten human rights defenders, including seven of Karapatan’s national officers, for perjury. In dismissing Esperon and Año’s petition, …

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Karapatan highlights attacks vs press freedom, freedom of expression for UN special rapporteur’s upcoming visit

Photo by Karl Romano/BenarNews November 23, 2023 Fourteen years after the Ampatuan massacre, rights group Karapatan said that the unabated attacks against journalists, media practitioners, and advocates of press freedom of opinion and expression be brought to the fore in the upcoming visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression come …

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Karapatan renews call vs terrorist designation of rights defenders, reasserts call to junk terror law

November 23, 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan joined other progressive formations today in a protest action in front of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency in Quezon City to reassert calls to junk the Anti-Terrorism Act as they condemned the Anti-Terrorism Council’s (ATC) arbitrary designation of human rights defenders and political dissenters as “terrorists.” “As we …

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Karapatan urges PH Congress to push for ICC investigation

November 22, 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan urged the House of Representatives (HOR) to throw its support behind resolutions pending before the body calling on the Marcos Jr. government to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor in his bid to investigate killings related to the anti-drug war during Rodrigo Duterte’s mayoralty terms in …

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Karapatan lauds statement of UN SR on climate change and human rights during his official visit

Photo from Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment November 16, 2023 Karapatan lauds the exit statement of United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Dr. Ian Fry calling for the abolition of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and the repeal of the Anti-Terrorism Law …

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Families call to surface 11 desaparecidos under Marcos Jr., continue search for justice with their “undying hope”

November 2, 2023 | DESAPARECIDOS “We gather on November 2 of every year, not in mourning, but with the undying hope that one day, we will not have to light candles and offer flowers in the absence of our loved ones, because this day will cease to become a day to remember the disappeared, but …

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Grant amparo, habeas data petition for abduction survivors Castro and Tamano ASAP, Karapatan asks SC

Photo by Jam Sta. Rosa/Agence France-Presse October 29, 2023 A month after surfaced environmental defenders Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro filed a petition for the writs of amparo and habeas data, human rights alliance Karapatan renewed its call for the Supreme Court to grant the petition at the soonest possible time.  “We seriously hope that …

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Perjury raps vs Castro, Tamano are forms of political persecution, judicial harassment of activists

Photo by Jam Sta. Rosa/Agence France-Presse October 24, 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan decried the filing of perjury raps against environmental activists Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro by the commanding officer of the 70th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army, Ronnel dela Cruz, after the two sought protective writs from the Supreme Court against the …

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Karapatan supports filing of grave threats raps vs ex-President Duterte 

Photo from Teddy Casiño October 24, 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan expressed its “full support” for ACT Teachers Partylist Rep. France Castro in filing a complaint of grave threats against former Pres. Rodrigo Duterte at the Prosecutor’s Office in Quezon City.  In an interview at the Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI) last week, Duterte had …

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