We in the Asia Pacific Coordinating Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (APCCHRP), a campaign network of human rights advocates in the region, and the Hong Kong Campaign for the Advancement of Human Rights and Peace in the Philippines (HKCAHRPP), a Hong Kong – wide committee of human rights and peace advocates, welcome the …
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“Where does BS Aquino pluck his ideas? First, he says he is thinking of a second term through Cha-Cha (Charter Change). Second, he says there are no more ‘berdugos’ in the AFP. Which and whose voices does Aquino hear?” remarked Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan.
"Siya pa itong mayabang, pero sa totoo lang duwag siya! (He is arrogant, but in truth he is a coward!),” Aya Santos, Desaparesidos secretary general said referring to Ret. Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan in reaction to the latter’s “privilege” of holding a press conference yesterday at the National Bureau of Investigation.
"Let’s get this straight. The arrest of Ret. Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan does not end impunity in the country," Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay said a day after the capture of Palparan. "The machinery of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) that perpetuates Palparan-style human rights violations against the Filipino people is very much …
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"The manner by which the two UP Clark students were abducted—without any warrant of arrest, blindfolded and denied access to their relatives and lawyers—bear all the signs of an illegal arrest, " Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan said today on the cases of Guiller Cadano, 22, and Gerald Salonga, 24, last August 8, 2014. …
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Karapatan welcomes the long overdue arrest of The Butcher Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. Those who harbored and kept Palparan from arrest in the past years should be accountable as well. (Photo courtesy of SolarTVNews)
"Those who exercised the right to express the people’s grievances to the Aquino administration were met with repression," Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general said as the group, along with leaders of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) and other progressive organizations, today filed complaints at the Commission on Human Rights against the Philippine National Police (PNP) for …
Bayan, Karapatan and other orgs at the People’s SONA file complaint to CHR, Ombudsman Read More »
A detained peace consultant of the NDFP said the DAP is one of Aquino’s “dictatorial means” to control the bureaucracy. Roy Erecre, one of the 15 currently detained JASIG-protected peace consultants, wryly asked, “What meaningful development has Aquino started when all he wanted is to control everything through dictatorial means, specifically in the form of …
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“We welcome the release of the four prisoners of war by the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. We view the release as a gesture of goodwill in the peace negotiation with the Philippine government. It is about time the Aquino administration releases political prisoners to reciprocate the NDFP’s act and to honor its commitment …
The political prisoners ended their four-day fast that started in July 25 to July 28, the day BS Aquino delivered his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA). The political prisoners lauded the “People’s SONA” saying it was a “meaningful show of people’s unity against the presidential pork, the Disbursement Acceleration Program, and all that …
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