Media Release Type: Press release

KARAPATAN throws its full support behind development workers from Ilocos who are the latest victims of the state’s weaponization of anti-terror legislation. Petronila Guzman and Lenville Salvador, board members of Kaduami (Katinnulong Daguiti Umili ti Amianan), and Myrna Zapanta, a lay worker and member of the secretariat of the Ilocos Regional Ecumenical Council (IREC), received …

Rights group denounces terror cases vs Ilocano dev’t workers Read More »

Mariing kinukundina ng Hustisya, organisasyon ng mga kaanak ng biktima ng extrajudicial killings at iba pang paglabag sa karapatang pantao, ang kasalukuyang rehimen ni Ferdinand Marcos Jr. sa kawalan nito ng aksyon para seryoso at lubusang panagutin si Rodrigo Duterte sa malawakang pamamaslang at paglabag sa karapatang pantao sa panahon ng panunungkulan nito bilang pangulo …

Pahayag ng Hustisya sa ika-4 na taon matapos ang pagpaslang kay Zara Alvarez Read More »

It is four years to the day since Zara Alvarez was gunned down in Bacolod City, the 13th human rights worker from Karapatan to have been killed under the Duterte regime. A fierce and dedicated human rights worker, Zara had been jailed on trumped-up charges which were eventually dismissed, red-tagged by a vigilante group with …

KARAPATAN: Justice for Zara Alvarez and all EJK victims under Duterte! Read More »

Karapatan denounced attempts by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in cahoots with the Philippine National Police to derail Makabayan senatorial candidate Liza Maza’s formal announcement of her electoral bid. Maza was scheduled to announce her candidacy before Makabayan constituents and other residents of vote-rich Caloocan City but was denied …

KARAPATAN denounces NTF-ELCAC’s pre-election harassment of Maza, progressive candidates Read More »

KARAPATAN condemns the arrest last August 13, 2024 of the former secretary general of its Southern Mindanao chapter, Jayvee “Jay” Apiag. Apiag was arrested in Digos City and is currently being held at the Buhangin Police Station in Davao City. Apiag is reportedly facing six trumped-up cases — four for attempted murder in the cities …

KARAPATAN denounces arrest of former human rights worker In Southern Mindanao Read More »

Karapatan condemns the latest reported human rights and international law violations perpetrated by state security forces in Negros Occidental and Northern Samar. In Cauayan, Negros Occidental, elements of the 15th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (IBPA) and the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) abducted and summarily executed 69-year old farmer Ramon Enseniales on …

Rights group scores rights, international humanitarian law violations in Negros and Samar Read More »

Karapatan condemns the recent illegal arrest, torture and unjust detention of four Central Luzon activists on the evening of July 29, 2024. According to reports from Karapatan-Central Luzon, Ma. Theresa Buscayno, Desiree Jaranilla Patuñ-og, Andres Ely and Oliver Millo, all peasant and community organizers, were aboard a white Toyota Innova van traveling along Jose Abad …

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