A week before UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion Irene Khan embarks on an official visit in the Philippines, rights group KARAPATAN joined journalists, artists, members of the academe and freedom of expression advocates in urging Ms. Khan to investigate the dangerous patterns on violations on the people’s freedom of expression and …
Human rights alliance Karapatan decried the filing of trumped-up charges against two leading activists in Central Visayas. Bayan Muna Central Visayas coordinator John Ruiz III and former Visayas Institute for Human Development Agency Inc. (VIHDA) executive director Jhonggie Rumol faced frustrated homicide charges by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) last December 18, 2023. …
In time for the ongoing visit of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture in the Philippines from December 3 to 14, 2023, human rights alliance Karapatan recommended “an independent, thorough and credible investigation on the policies and practices of State security forces in the country that engender torture and other cruel, degrading and …
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Karapatan joined other organizations from the indigenous people, peasants, environmental defenders and church people in calling for a stop to State-sponsored aerial and artillery bombings of communities in the course of the Marcos Jr. regime’s brutal counter-insurgency war as well as other grave violations of human rights and International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The protesting organizations …
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Human rights alliance Karapatan and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) kicks off the ten-day commemoration of International Human Rights Day with a press conference, with victims-survivors of human rights violations and those coming from communities under attack presenting their views on the current human rights situation in the country. Joining the panel are environmental activists and …
Karapatan renewed its call on the Marcos Jr. government to stop the political persecution of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP), as the RMP braced for another hearing today, November 30, 2023, on the criminal and civil forfeiture cases it is facing for alleged violation of Republic Act No. 10168 or the Terrorism Financing …
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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, …
