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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Karapatan strongly deplores the brutal killing by operating troops of the Philippine Army 2nd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army of Rey Belan, a 17-year-old farmer from Barangay Calabad, Dimasalang, Masbate, and the subsequent attempt by the soldiers to cover up their evil deed by falsely claiming that Belan was an NPA member killed in …
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The NTF-ELCAC’s minions have threatened to file charges against those who condemned the massacre of the Fausto family in Himamaylan, Negros Occidentall and called on authorities to arrest members of progressive groups out to conduct a fact-finding mission. Such threats and intimidation are obviously frantic attempts to prevent the fact-finding mission from exposing the sordid …
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On the occasion of World Refugee Day this June 20, Karapatan calls attention to the plight of the thousands of internal refugees in the Philippines displaced by the military’s incessant counter-insurgency campaigns in the countryside. Although they remain within the country’s borders, internally displaced persons (IDP) nonetheless suffer virtually the same physical and economic dislocation …
On World Refugee Day, Karapatan demands the pull-out of AFP in communities in PH Read More »
Human rights alliance Karapatan today called on the Commission on Human Rights to immediately conduct an independent investigation into the gruesome massacre of four members of the Fausto family in Sitio Kangkiling, Barangay Buenavista, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental, on June 14, 2023. Negros-based human rights groups and media have confirmed the killing of peasant activists …
