Karapatan renewed its call to lawmakers at the House of Representatives to pass pending resolutions urging the Marcos Jr. government to cooperate with the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) ongoing probe of the Duterte regime’s bloody anti-drug war. Meanwhile, a similar resolution has likewise been filed at the Senate by Sen. Risa Hontiveros. “This growing clamor …
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Human rights alliance Karapatan welcomed the recent dismissal of the petition for certiorari filed by former and current National Security Advisers Hermogenes Esperon Jr. and Eduardo Año questioning the acquittal last January 2023 of ten human rights defenders, including seven of Karapatan’s national officers, for perjury. In dismissing Esperon and Año’s petition, Quezon City Regional …
Fourteen years after the Ampatuan massacre, rights group Karapatan said that the unabated attacks against journalists, media practitioners, and advocates of press freedom of opinion and expression be brought to the fore in the upcoming visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression come January 2024. “In all days, but especially …
Human rights alliance Karapatan joined other progressive formations today in a protest action in front of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency in Quezon City to reassert calls to junk the Anti-Terrorism Act as they condemned the Anti-Terrorism Council’s (ATC) arbitrary designation of human rights defenders and political dissenters as “terrorists.” “As we have repeatedly asserted, …
Human rights alliance Karapatan urged the House of Representatives (HOR) to throw its support behind resolutions pending before the body calling on the Marcos Jr. government to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor in his bid to investigate killings related to the anti-drug war during Rodrigo Duterte’s mayoralty terms in Davao City and …
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A barbed wire fence reminiscent of Martial Law materialized at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani as a stark reminder of the dark period in our history that was the US-Marcos regime. “Barbed-wire fences are part of our collective memory of Martial Law that separated the fascist and elitist government from the people who endured imprisonment, …
Karapatan lauds the exit statement of United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Dr. Ian Fry calling for the abolition of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and the repeal of the Anti-Terrorism Law (ATL), among other pertinent climate and human rights issues which he …
“We gather on November 2 of every year, not in mourning, but with the undying hope that one day, we will not have to light candles and offer flowers in the absence of our loved ones, because this day will cease to become a day to remember the disappeared, but become a day of justice.” …
Photo by Jam Sta. Rosa/Agence France-Presse October 29, 2023 A month after surfaced environmental defenders Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro filed a petition for the writs of amparo and habeas data, human rights alliance Karapatan renewed its call for the Supreme Court to grant the petition at the soonest possible time. “We seriously hope that …
Photo by Jam Sta. Rosa/Agence France-Presse October 24, 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan decried the filing of perjury raps against environmental activists Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro by the commanding officer of the 70th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army, Ronnel dela Cruz, after the two sought protective writs from the Supreme Court against the …
