A day before marking the International Day of the Disappeared this August 30th, families of victims of enforced disappearance took to the streets to renew their calls to surface their missing loved ones. Governments have long used enforced disappearance as a repressive tool to silence dissent. The International Day of the Disappeared is an occasion …
KARAPATAN expressed alarm on the multiple reports of incidents of threats and harassment of peasant organizations and their members, as well as similar cases of intimidation against activists in the past weeks. “The Marcos administration has the audacity to claim that it is a ‘long-time champion of international humanitarian law,’ while his National Task Force …
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KARAPATAN supports the protest of more than 600 “persons deprived of liberty,” including political prisoners, at the Negros Occidental District Jail in Bago City, Negros Occidental. We call on the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) to respect the rights and welfare of the prisoners, including their legitimate right to seek redress of their …
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Rights group KARAPATAN called for an urgent independent investigation on the latest incidents of aerial bombings and indiscriminate firing by State security forces in the island of Panay, following reports of the same incidents of bombings in other regions under the Marcos Jr. government. “That these intense military operations are being carried out on International …
Desaparecidos (Families of the Disappeared United for Justice) congratulates film director JL Burgos, the Burgos family and the entire crew of “Alipato at Muog” (Flying Embers and Fortress) for winning Best Picture and Best Director at the 73rd Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) Awards Night on August 22. “Alipato at Muog”, an …
Rights group KARAPATAN condemned the arrest of PISTON member Felixberto Consad based on trumped up charges against the transport sector activist. On August 14, Consad, 61, was at the balcony of their house in Sogod, Southern Leyte, taking care of his grandchild, when a man in plainclothes entered their yard, followed by a uniformed policeman …
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KARAPATAN welcomed the dismissal by the Department of Justice (DOJ) of the terrorist financing charges against Myrna Zapanta, a long-time women’s and indigenous rights activist. The complainants, PCMS Jomar Camat and PCPL John Galvizo of the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-Regional Field Unit 1, alleged that Zapanta was a finance officer of …
Rights group KARAPATAN denounced the Marcos Jr. regime’s National Action Plan for Unity, Peace and Development (NAP-UPD), a counter-insurgency program that will worsen violations of human rights and IHL, with the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) as one of the lead agencies, calling it a “national plan for state terrorism.” …
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KARAPATAN condemned the spate of harassment incidents against youth and church activists in Tacloban City in the past several days and called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to take decisive steps in calling the attention and put a stop to these forms of threats and bullying by the military and the National Task …
August 2025 marks the eighth year since the killings of Kian delos Santos, Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo “Kulot” de Guzman, who were killed on August 16 and 18, 2017 in Caloocan City during the Duterte regime’s bloody war on drugs. It will be remembered that prior to the killings of Kian, Carl and Kulot, Duterte …
KARAPATAN: Justice remains elusive for “drug war” victims of Duterte et.al. Read More »
