“Ikaw ang mahiya, kayo ang mahiya sa inyong mga krimen at pagtatakip ng katototahanan sa mamamayang Pilipino. Shame on Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s for covering up truths and crimes against the people in his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA),” said human rights alliance KARAPATAN. “Marcos had the gall to call out those who plunder …
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Whatever glittering words Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivers in his third State of the Nation Address (SONA) will fail to enthrall. Casting a pall on his SONA is the calamitous effect his three-year rule has had on the people’s civil and political rights. Contrary to his cultivated image of a president who respects human rights, Marcos …
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“The ‘state of calamity’ in Mindoro goes beyond the effects of the typhoons that have recently devastated the island. The people of the island, including the indigenous Mangyan communities, have been subjected to varying forms and levels of human rights violations due to intensified militarization as well as the destructive operations of big corporations that …
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Human rights alliance Karapatan and Hustisya (Victims United for Justice), whose representatives are complainants in the second impeachment complaint filed against Vice President Sara Duterte, assailed a Supreme Court (SC) ruling stating that the articles of impeachment against her are unconstitutional for having allegedly violated the ban on the conduct of more than one impeachment …
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As Ferdinand Marcos is set to deliver his State of the Nation Address on Monday, Hustisya (Victims United for Justice) assailed the Marcos Jr. regime for its failure to attain justice for victims of extrajudicial killings both under its watch and during the Duterte regime. “One need only look at the outcome of the sham …
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KARAPATAN assailed a bill filed by Sen. Imee Marcos, dubbed the President Rodrigo R. Duterte Act if passed into law, prohibiting the transfer of individuals within Philippine territory to any foreign entity not recognized through a treaty, or without the person’s consent or a local court order. The bill references Duterte’s arrest by the Interpol …
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KARAPATAN has followed up Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla’s latest pronouncements of an intersection between the perpetrators of the drug war-related killings and the abductors and likely murderers of the “missing sabungeros,” saying that “these may be the same people involved in the enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killings of activists.” Information disclosed by a whistleblower to …
Karapatan assailed the renewed security arrangements entered into by Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in his state visit to the United States that would redound to more US military funding and armaments for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for use in its brutal counter-insurgency war. Said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay, “In meetings between US …
Marcos-Trump agreements during state visit will worsen rights situation in PH Read More »
Dear friends, On July 18, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) launched Defending in Numbers: Reclaiming CIvic Space, Unbroken Voices, which analyses the situation of human rights defenders (HRDs) in Asia in 2023 and 2024, including the Philippines. The program launch was held at the Commission on Human Rights, sponsored by the …
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Karapatan said that the arrest by the Interpol of Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa is long overdue, after Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin hinted on Dela Rosa’s impending arrest in a recent media interview. According to Bersamin, the Philippine government would hand over Dela Rosa to the Interpol the same way it ceded Duterte should there …
