Today, on the 17th of August 2025, KARAPATAN remembers Zara Alvarez, one of its most courageous and dedicated human rights workers, who was gunned down by suspected state agents near her home in Bacolod City five years ago under the fascist Duterte regime. As Duterte enjoys the right to due process accorded by the International …
The Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainee Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners, congratulates Jazrene Gonzales for winning the Excellence Prize at the Korea Gyeonggi International Film Festival for SDGs 2025 for her film “Silent Spaces.” Gonzales’ film directorial debut “Silent Spaces” traces the story of SELDA Vice Chairperson Danilo dela …
Torture survivors laud award-winning docu film on political prisoners in PH Read More »
KARAPATAN welcomed the acquittal by the Taguig City Regional Trial Court Branch 266 of four activists arrested since 2014 on trumped-up charges of kidnapping with murder and frustrated murder. Ordered released were National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultants Renante Gamara and Tirso Alcantara, peasant organizer Dionisio Almonte, and construction workers Diony Borre and …
Human rights alliance KARAPATAN acknowledges the decision by the Court of Appeals 16th Division dated August 12, 2025 granting the privileges of the writ of amparo filed by the families of two missing former Cordillera-based activists Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz Jamil “Bazoo” de Jesus. The Court ruled that Capuyan and de Jesus are victims …
KARAPATAN and the Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainee Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners, welcomed the San Fernando Regional Trial Court Branch 47’s decision to grant the demurrer to evidence of four peasant rights activists arrested in Mexico, Pampanga in July 2024 on trumped-up charges of illegal possession of firearms …
KARAPATAN condemned the escalation of the Zionist genocidal war against the Palestinian people marked by the decision of the Israeli Security Cabinet to send ground troops for the military occupation of Gaza City. Turning a deaf ear to protests from the international community, and emboldened by the US’ condonation of the plan, Israeli forces implemented …
KARAPATAN denounces the hypocrisy of the Marcos Jr. regime for projecting itself as a “champion” of international humanitarian law (IHL), in the middle of enforcing a so-called National Action Plan for Unity, Peace and Development (NAP-UPD), a counter-insurgency program that serves as the blueprint for systematic violations of IHL, with the National Task Force to …
Rights group denounces Marcos hypocrisy, use of domestic law on IHL vs non-combatants Read More »
Desaparecidos (Families of the Disappeared for Justice) congratulated film director JL Burgos, the Burgos family and the entire crew of “Alipato at Muog” for being nominated in several categories in the 73rd Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) Awards. “Alipato at Muog”, a documentary released last year as part of the Cinemalaya 20 …
Desaparecidos: FAMAS nomination of “Alipato at Muog” an ode to the disappeared Read More »
KARAPATAN condemns the latest reported incidents of repression in Ilocos Norte and Agusan del Sur, and called upon the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to conduct a thorough investigation. In the span of a day, three individuals were forcibly taken by military elements with the whereabouts of two of them still unknown. On the night …
KARAPATAN condemns recent attacks vs Ilocos activists, political prisoner in Agusan Read More »
On the third day of the Asia Pacific Regional Conference on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) at the New World Hotel in Makati City, KARAPATAN and activists from various groups protested at the venue of the conference and denounced the Marcos regime’s hosting of the event as “another act of hypocrisy and window-dressing before the international …
