Media Release Type: Press release

Statement of Desaparecidos on the Commemoration of the 2023 International Week of the Disappeared

As we commemorate the International Week of the Disappeared (IWD), we join hands and hearts to remember the victims of one of the most inhumane crimes ever committed against humanity: enforced disappearance. This solemn occasion serves as a stark reminder of the countless lives that have been shattered, families torn apart, and communities left in …

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Karapatan Statement on the International Week of the Disappeared

As the world observes the International Week of the Disappeared this last week of May 2023, we remember the countless victims of this grave injustice who have been arrested, detained, abducted, or forcibly deprived of liberty through other means, often by state agents or state-sanctioned entities. The victims are not surfaced, thus leaving families in …

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Karapatan hails renewed campaign for Writ of Kalayaan amid surging COVID-19 cases

Human rights alliance Karapatan threw its support behind Kapatid’s renewed campaign for a Writ of Kalayaan aimed at addressing the urgent need to decongest jails and safeguard the lives of vulnerable prisoners, in light of the resurgent threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Kapatid, a support group composed of friends and relatives of political prisoners, …

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Karapatan slams inutility of Anti-Desaparecido Law as 2 activists go missing

Human rights alliance Karapatan slammed the Marcos Jr. regime’s contempt for the Anti-Enforced Disappearance Act of 2012 (Republic Act 10353, also known as the Anti-Desaparecido Law) even as it expressed its utmost concern for the welfare and safety of two activists who had gone missing since the evening of April 28, 2023. Dexter Capuyan and …

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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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