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Karapatan slams Sara Duterte’s proposal for military conscription

Photo by Miguel de Guzman/Philippine Star Military conscription violates basic civil and political rights, human rights alliance Karapatan asserted on Thursday, as the group slammed Sara Duterte’s proposal to make military service in the country mandatory should she become vice president.

Karapatan denounces killing of peasant couple in Sorsogon

Human rights alliance Karapatan expressed strong indignation on the killing of an elderly couple in Sorsogon, as the group warned that “the bloodbath in the Philippines will continue after the Duterte regime, if the next president will continue its murderous legacy and maintain the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC).”

Duterte, NTF-ELCAC, etc must also be held accountable for the killing of Evangelista couple, other Bloody Sunday victims

While human rights alliance Karapatan welcomed the filing of murder complaints against the police personnel involved in the service of search warrants that killed fisherfolk leaders Ariel Evangelista and Ana-Mariz “Chai” Lemita-Evangelista during the Bloody Sunday raids throughout Southern Tagalog last March 7, 2021, the group asserted that President Rodrigo Duterte, officials of the National …

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Karapatan to Cavite LGU: Stop the attacks, demolitions in Patungan coastal community

Photo from Pamalakaya Rights group Karapatan called on the local government of Maragondon, Cavite to stop the attacks against residents of Brgy. Patungan, as it also called on the Commission on Human Rights to conduct an independent investigation on the shooting incidents yesterday and the violent demolition of the residents’ homes to hold perpetrators accountable.

NTF-ELCAC’s continuing reprisal suit vs rights defenders a form of judicial harassment

National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr., also vice chairperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), took the witness stand yesterday, December 20, 2021, at the trial on his perjury charges against officials of human rights group Karapatan, the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP), and Gabriela at the Quezon …

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