A human rights activist charged with indirect contempt by a private lawyer has filed a motion to dismiss the complaint before the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 206. Calling the indirect contempt charges “frivolous,” Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said that she seeks the court’s immediate dismissal of the said charges against her, former Sen. …
Human rights alliance Karapatan slammed the renewed judicial harassment against Filipino human rights defenders as well as attacks on the integrity and independence of judges, as its officers – Cristina Palabay, Roneo Clamor, Dr. Edita Burgos, Gabriela Krista Dalena, Fr. Wilfredo Ruazol, and Jose Mari Callueng – filed their joint comment today, July 20, 2023, …
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July 17, 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan denounced the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ bombings of rural communities in the course of its counter-insurgency campaign, saying that these have resulted in massive physical and economic displacement among civilians. Karapatan cited the series of indiscriminate bombings and strafing by the 94th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine …
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Karapatan views with utmost concern the issuance by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of Executive Order 33 directing government agencies to adopt the National Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorism Financing, and Counter Proliferation Financing Strategy (NACS) 2023-2027, a directive with the purported objective to ensure that the Philippines exits from a “grey list” of countries compiled by the …
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Karapatan denounces the baseless and arbitrary designation by the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) of six persons, including Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) chairperson Windel Bolinget and CPA leaders Jennifer Awingan, Sarah Abellon-Alikes and Stephen Tauli as “terrorist individuals,” in the ATC’s Resolution No. 41 approved on June 7, 2023 and published yesterday, July 10, 2023. This is …
After a year in power, Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has proven to be virtually indistinguishable from his predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte. Extrajudicial killings (EJKs) have not only continued, the policies that spur them are firmly in place. Marcos Jr. continues to implement Duterte’s 2017-2022 National Security Policy that has engendered counter-insurgency programs and policies that resulted …
On the eve of the first year of the Marcos Jr. presidency, former political prisoners, their relatives, and advocates of current political prisoners gathered to launch a campaign for the release of all political prisoners in the Philippines, in an activity at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani today. “The nearly 800 political prisoners in the …
Karapatan denounces the latest attempt by State forces to weaponize the draconian Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2022 against political activists and human rights defenders. On June 9, a subpoena was issued by Antipolo City Prosecutor Mari Elvira B. Herrera summoning youth activist Ken Rementilla and church worker Jasmin Rubia to face allegations of violating Section …
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Human rights alliance Karapatan raised concerns on Tuesday regarding the Department of Education’s (DepEd) internal memorandum requesting a list of teachers affiliated with the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT), the largest non-traditional teachers’ organization in the Philippines, as the group warned that such moves “strongly endanger the lives and safety of teachers as well as …
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Desaparecidos (Pamilya ng Desaparecidos para sa Katarungan), a human rights organization dedicated to seeking justice for victims of enforced disappearances, strongly condemns the ongoing impunity surrounding the case of the victims who disappeared in June 2006 in the Philippines. We demand that the Philippine government take immediate action to bring those responsible to justice and …
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