Karapatan renewed its call to put Sara Duterte on trial to hold her accountable for her misuse of hundreds of millions of pesos in Confidential and Intelligence Funds (CIF). The refusal of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his lieutenants to go ahead with Sara Duterte’s trial is rooted in their fear of losing their opportunity to …
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Rights group KARAPATAN condemned the harassment of Kyle Domequil, sister of detained humanitarian worker Marielle Domequil, one of the Tacloban 5. “The military and elements of the state are too desperate to silence the Domequil sisters, because they cannot deny the fact that they are speaking out the truth, first in the unjust arrest and …
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Human rights alliance KARAPATAN denounced the Marcos regime’s hosting of the Asia Pacific Regional Conference on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) as “another act of hypocrisy and window-dressing before the international community, amid numerous human rights and IHL violations under the current administration.” The conference opens today, August 11, 2025 until the 14th, according to the …
Human rights groups Karapatan and Hustisya, an organization of families and friends of victims of extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations, mark the fifth anniversary of the killing of peasant leader Randall “Ka Randy” Echanis with renewed calls for justice and accountability. Ka Randy was stabbed 12 times by suspected state agents who broke …
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After a long-winded session, the Philippine Senate shamelessly reneged on its duty to hold accountable Vice President Sara Duterte for misusing more than Php600 million in her Confidential and Intelligence Funds (CIF). For hours, the vast majority of senators gave speeches that were variations of the same theme set down by the Supreme Court — …
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KARAPATAN welcomes the acquittal by the Taguig City Regional Trial Court Branch 70 of five activists arrested in Laguna almost seven years ago on trumped-up charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives (IPFE). Collectively known as the “Sta. Cruz 5,” the activists—National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultant Adelberto Silva, veteran union organizer Ireneo …
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KARAPATAN and the Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA) welcomed the dismissal of trumped up frustrated murder charges against indigenous rights advocate Myrna Cruz-Abraham. In a five-page decision by Judge Conrado T. Tabaco of the Aparri Regional Trial Court Branch 9, the court granted Abraham’s demurrer to evidence, effectively dismissing the frustrated …
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KARAPATAN condemns the continuing judicial harassment against its detained Eastern Visayas human rights worker Alexander Philip Abinguña and community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, and the questionable role played by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in Region 8 in such harassment. Abinguña and Cumpio have been slapped with additional trumped-up charges of double murder and …
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KARAPATAN strongly condemned the spate of attacks on human rights defenders in Mindanao and called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to conduct a thoroughgoing probe. Warren Cahayag, one of the founding paralegals of the Union of Peoples Lawyers in Mindanao (UPLM) in 2005, was shot five times by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Barangay Calumpang, …
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KARAPATAN welcomes the Court of Appeals decision granting the privileges of the writs of amparo and habeas data in favor of the daughters of Felix Salaveria Jr., an indigenous people’s activist and cycling advocate who was abducted on August 28, 2024 and has been missing since then. The decision of the Former Thirteenth Division of …
