Media Release Type: Press release

Tanggol Bayi: Free our sisters, free all political prisoners

Tanggol Bayi, an organization of women human rights defenders, joins activists from KARAPATAN, Samahan ng Ex-detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), the Free Amanda Echanis Movement, Tanggol Magsasaka, Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women, GABRIELA, Kilusang Mayo Uno, Bai Indigenous Women’s Network, and˰the Ecumenical Women’s Forum in renewing the call to release women political …

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KARAPATAN sounds alarm on the increase of redtagging incidents

KARAPATAN expressed alarm over the growing incidents of red-tagging, villification and outright threats against progressive candidates, their campaigners and supporters coming on the heels of the issuance by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) of Resolution No. 1116 prohibiting acts associated with red-tagging. The spurt in red-tagging incidents also comes after a recent nationwide inquiry by …

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KARAPATAN sounds alarm on bombings, strafing in Mindoro communities

KARAPATAN condemned the aerial strafing of peasant and indigenous communities in Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro perpetrated by the 4th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (IBPA) and the 203rd Infantry Brigade on March 1, 2025, saying this violates the principle of distinction in international humanitarian law which provides that parties to an armed conflict must “at …

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Families of two disappeared activists in Bicol continue search for loved ones

A mass was celebrated at the St. John the Baptist Church in Tabaco City to raise awareness on the continuing disappearance of long-time activists James Jazmines and Felix Salaveria Jr.. A press conference was also held in Legazpi City erlier with James’ wife Corazon Jazmines, Hustisya secretary general Ofelia Balleta and Desaparecidos spokesperson Edita Burgos. …

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KARAPATAN decries use of NTF-ELCAC paid hack in trumped up charges vs human rights worker, two others

KARAPATAN decries the continuing persecution of human rights defender Alexander Philip “Chakoy” Abinguna, Karapatan National Council member and coordinator of Katungod-Sinirangan Bisayas at the time of his arrest, as he attended the court hearing today, February 24, 2025, at Leyte Regional Trial Court Branch 45 for trumped up charges of illegal possession of firearms and …

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KARAPATAN renews call to scrap terror laws as PH removal from FATF grey list signals heightened repression, impunity

KARAPATAN renews its call for the repeal of the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Law, as it noted that the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) removal of the Philippines from its “grey list” instigates the further repression of political dissenters, development and humanitarian workers and ordinary folk by egging on the …

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