Karapatan slams bicam committee for 17.1 billion-peso allotment for NTF-ELCAC in 2022 national budget
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A message of congratulations to Maria Ressa, a continuing call to uphold press freedom in the Philippines
We in Karapatan Alliance Philippines convey our congratulations to Maria Ressa, as she receives the Nobel Peace Prize today, on the occasion of the 73rd International Human Rights Day.
Karapatan asserts call to #JunkTerrorLaw as SC decision retains draconian provisions
Human rights alliance Karapatan expressed dismay on Thursday over the reported Supreme Court en banc’s decision to retain the “draconian” provisions of Republic Act No.
Karapatan calls on Filipinos to unite in the call to #JunkTerrorLaw on last Human Rights Day under Duterte
Human rights alliance Karapatan joined various groups and formations in calling on all Filipinos to “unite for justice and democracy and to stand against tyranny and dictatorship” in the coming mass actions to mark the last International Human Rights Day under the Duterte administration, especially amid the looming announcement of the Supreme Court en banc’s …
Act on habeas corpus petition soonest to surface Steve Abua, Karapatan urges CA
Rights group Karapatan urged the Court of Appeals to act on the petition for the writ of habeas corpus filed by the wife of missing peasant advocate and activist Steve Abua, and stressed the need for state accountability on abduction and enforced disappearances.
Karapatan to presidential, VP candidates in 2022 elections: Stop the killings, hold Duterte and all perpetrators accountable!
In a symbolic activity at the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on December 8, two days before the International Human Rights Day, human rights group Karapatan called on presidential and vice-presidential candidates in the upcoming 2022 elections to put a stop to extrajudicial killings in the counterinsurgency and drug war campaigns of the Duterte administration, …
Karapatan reasserts call to abolish NTF-ELCAC after three years of State terror, violence, and repression
For the past three years, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) “has only proven itself to be a weapon by President Rodrigo Duterte in his desperate bid to crush dissent and terrorize the Filipino people,” human rights alliance Karapatan said on Monday, as the group reasserted its call for the …
Karapatan renews call on Ombudsman to act on complaints vs NTF-ELCAC officials over red-tagging
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Duterte’s kill-kill-kill policy through NTF-ELCAC led to Bloody Sunday killings, arrests
“If there’s an encounter and you see them armed, kill, kill them, don’t mind human rights, I will be the one to go to prison, I don’t have qualms.” President Rodrigo Duterte was quoted saying these orders to the police and military in a meeting in Cagayan de Oro City of the National Task Force …
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