“A long overdue measure:” Karapatan urges Congress to pass law protecting rights defenders
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Karapatan calls for independent probe into reported IHL violations in the killing of Jorge “Ka Oris” Madlos and medical aide
Following the reported killing of New People’s Army’s (NPA) National Operational Command Spokesperson Jorge “Ka Oris” Madlos and his medical aide Eighfel Dela Peña, human rights watchdog Karapatan called for an independent and impartial investigation to determine the actual circumstances of their deaths, given initial reports which point to possible and brazen violations of international …
Kin of desaparecidos to 2022 election candidates: “Help us stop enforced disappearance”
On All Souls Day, kin and friends of victims of involuntary disappearance under the group Desaparecidos echoed the call to surface their loved ones and challenged 2022 candidates to stop enforced disappearances. “It doesn’t matter if days or years have passed since our relatives went missing – the anxiety and agony is still in our …
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CHED-CAR’s memo to purge “subversive” materials from libraries a brazen attack on academic freedom
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Declare Bato a nuisance candidate for running to protect himself, Duterte from ICC
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Let’s talk about platforms now, Karapatan urges 2022 aspirants
Rights group Karapatan urged candidates for the 2022 national elections to lay down their platforms, their positions on issues and concerns of Filipinos especially of poor communities now, way before the election campaign starts.
Karapatan demands release of two Batangas peasant leaders
Karapatan demanded the release of two long-time peasant activists in Batangas, one of them a victim of illegal search during the March 7, 2021 Bloody Sunday raids in the Southern Tagalog region.
Rights groups press for overdue accountability on drug war killings, attacks on rights defenders at UNHRC
As President Rodrigo Duterte prepares for his defense against the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) investigation into the situation in the Philippines, human rights alliance Karapatan together with international partners asserted in oral statements delivered before the 48th session of United Nation Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that an independent international investigation into the country is “overdue” …
Duterte’s order barring Cabinet from appearing before Senate is a desperate cover-up attempt
Photo from Health Alliance for Democracy Human rights alliance Karapatan said that President Rodrigo Duterte’s order barring his Cabinet from attending the Senate committee hearings regarding the government’s anomalous transactions with pharmaceutical corporation Pharmally is “nothing more than a desperate attempt to cover up what now appears to be a wide scale corruption scandal involving …
Uphold schools, libraries as democratic spaces, stop NTF-ELCAC’s “tokhang” in libraries!
Photo by Lucky Dela Rosa/Philippine Collegian Rights group Karapatan called on academic institutions to “uphold schools and libraries as democratic spaces,” and said that “tokhang” in libraries by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict should be stopped.