Media Release Type: Press release

Marcos Jr.’s EO 23 task force to whitewash labor rights violations

The Executive Order 23 (EO 23)-created inter-agency committee tasked to probe the extrajudicial killings and harassment of workers will simply go the way of other investigative bodies created earlier for similar purposes. It will become nothing more than an elaborate instrument to temporarily mollify the people’s anger and eventually whitewash the State’s responsibility for extrajudicial …

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Karapatan condemns IHL, rights violations in Samar, Negros and Kalinga

Karapatan condemns in the strongest terms the growing cases of violations of human rights and international humanitarian law (IHL) where civilians are increasingly being victimized in the Marcos Jr. regime’s brutal counter-insurgency war. The latest case that has come to our attention is the killing of two civilians in Barangay Sangay, Palapag, Northern Samar. According …

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On Marcos Jr.’s recent statements on the rights abuses in Duterte’s drug war

Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s recent publicly expressed views citing “abuses by certain elements in the government” in the previous administration’s anti-drug campaign and “some concerns” on the human rights situation in the Philippines during the Duterte administration betray his doubletalk in addressing persistent questions on justice and accountability of the previous administration. Out of the thousands …

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Karapatan condemns brutal killing of Benito and Wilma Tiamzon and companions, calls for independent probe

Human rights alliance Karapatan condemned the brutal killing of Benito Tiamzon, peacetalks panel member of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, NDFP peace consultant Wilma Austria-Tiamzon, and eight companions. The Tiamzons’ death along with eight others on August 21, 2022 was confirmed in a special issue of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) …

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Surface the Abducted Batangas Sugar Workers!

Desaparecidos (Pamilya ng Desaparecidos para sa Katarungan) strongly condemns the abduction of Sugarfolks Alliance for Genuine Agricultural Reform (SUGAR) Batangas volunteers and organizers, Alfred Manalo, Lloyd Descallar, and senior citizen Angelito Balitostos on March 26, 2023. The three main missing to this day. “We and their families are deeply concerned about the physical and mental …

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Karapatan: No justice from Marcos Jr.’s justice department

Human rights alliance Karapatan decried the latest decision from the Department of Justice (DOJ) absolving the 17 policemen accused in the murder of activist couple Ariel Evangelista and Ana Mariz “Chai” Evangelista. Ariel and Chai Evangelista were among the nine individuals slain in a region-wide dragnet by the Philippine National Police in several Southern Tagalog …

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