Eight-five year old Gerardo dela Peña, the oldest political prisoner in the Philippines, was finally released from the New Bilibid Prisons at 9:30 p.m. of June 30, 2024 by virtue of executive clemency. He had been behind bars for more than 11 years for a trumped-up murder charge. Tatay Gerardo’s release was the result of …
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KARAPATAN reiterates its calls for the abolition of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict and the repeal of Republic Act No. 11479 or the Anti-Terrorism Act, as the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights Ian Fry submitted his final report on his official visit in the Philippines today, …
Human rights alliance KARAPATAN assailed the latest attempt by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to wheedle more funds from government coffers in the upcoming deliberations in Congress for the 2025 budget. The NTF-ELCAC is reportedly gunning for an additional PhP 8.7 billion for its so-called Support to Barangay Development …
In a side event at the 56th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Switzerland on June 20, 2024, KARAPATAN’s Atty. Maria Sol Taule said that under the Marcos Jr. administration, “the human rights situation remains as bleak as ever, with intensifying human rights and international humanitarian law violations and worsening climate of …
SELDA (Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainee Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto) marks the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture with renewed calls for a stop to torture, for justice for all victims and survivors of this abominable crime and for the release of all political prisoners, many of whom are living examples that torture …
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As we mark the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture this June 26th, we denounce torture and reaffirm our support for victims and survivors of this grave human rights violation. In the Philippines, torture persists despite the enactment of Republic Act No. 9745 or the Anti-Torture Act of 2009, which punishes torture inflicted …
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KARAPATAN condemned the series of raids and incidents of harassment against peasant leaders in Bulacan as well as farmers and rights advocates in Negros and Batangas, warning that they may be a prelude to a major crackdown on peasant leaders, activists and farmers’ rights advocates. “At 7 a.m. today, June 18, 2024,” said KARAPATAN secretary …
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The lawyer for a terminally ill political prisoner has petitioned the court to release his client on recognizance on humanitarian grounds. Atty. Kristian Lora of the Visayas Community Law Center filed the petition at Carmen, Bohol Regional Trial Court Branch 51 on June 19, 2024 on behalf of workers’ rights advocate Ernesto Jude Rimando who …
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KARAPATAN condemns the extrajudicial killing of a Lumad youth in Sen. Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat on June 8, 2024 and calls on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to conduct an investigation. According to reports, Kuni Cuba, 16, a Manobo-Dulangan youth on a scholarship who would have been in 10th grade this coming school year, …
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KARAPATAN condemns the arrest of animal rights and climate justice activist Edison Yu last June 8, 2024 and demands that the unjust and unfounded charges against him be dropped. Yu was set to join a solidarity action opposing the genocide of the Palestinian people in front of the Israeli embassy at the Bonifacio Global City …
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