Photo from AlterMidya October 15, 2023 After Congress turned down the proposed allocation of confidential and intelligence funds to the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and the Department of Education (DepEd), rights alliance Karapatan said this should also prompt the legislative branch to completely abolish such funds and rechanelled to social services, instead of …
October 11, 2023 | Karapatan Central Luzon The families of Lee Sudario, 34, and Norman Ortiz, 25, together with human rights organization Karapatan, called to surface their loved ones, the latest names in the fast-growing roster of abductions by suspected State agents. On September 28, 2023, Norman Ortiz informed his sister that he will be …
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Photo by Jam Sta. Rosa/Agence France-Presse September 29, 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan expressed strong support for surfaced environmental defenders Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro as they filed their petition for the writs of amparo and habeas data at the Supreme Court through their lawyers, and urged the high court to grant the petition immediately. …
The recent revelations of Jonila de Castro and Jhed Tamano, the two young women environmental defenders who were abducted on September 2, 2023 and surfaced as “surrenderees” by the military and the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), shows the need for a more thorough independent investigation into the enforced disappearance …
September 22, 2023 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — “War on drugs” victims are urging the United Nations (UN) to take a more proactive stance in the Philippines, particularly in investigating killings during the previous Duterte administration that continue until the present Marcos administration. At the 54th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Philippine UPR Watch …
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September 19, 2023 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — As the world commemorates the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, the Philippine Universal Periodic Review (PUPR) Watch delegation to the 54th UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session raised alarm over the escalating attacks against human rights defenders and activists in the Philippines under …
Photo by Lucky Dela Rosa/Philippine Collegian Human rights alliance Karapatan assailed the Marcos Jr. regime for increasingly targeting civilians in its counter-insurgency drive. “In the past four weeks,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay, “we have received reports on the extrajudicial killings of at least four civilians in two separate incidents in Sarangani province and Masbate.” …
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Families and friends of abducted activists rallied in front of the Court of Appeals in Manila to mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance, where they called on the courts for a favorable decision on the petition for the writ of habeas corpus filed by the families of missing activists Gene Roz …
Activists, friends and kin of the involuntarily disappeared massed up at the Court of Appeals building in Manila this Tuesday to mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Led by Desaparecidos, an organization of families and friends of victims of involuntary disappearance, the gathering served as a stark reminder of the continuing …
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“The attempt of former National Security Adviser Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. and Gen. Eduardo Año, NTF-ELCAC co-vice chair and current security adviser, to pursue the judicial harassment against Karapatan through this trumped-up and malicious charges of perjury is a desperate act intended to hound human rights defenders. Sa madaling salita, tirang pikon itong ginagawa nila,” said …
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