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Karapatan expressed its support to Otto de Vries, a Dutch pastoral worker and trade union rights advocate, against deportation orders of the Philippine Bureau of Immigration,and called it as "another spate of harassment against human rights defenders who have long worked for social justice issues in the Philippines, like what they did to Sr. Patricia …

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While human rights alliance Karapatan welcomed the Supreme Court’s dismissal of Bongbong Marcos’s electoral protest as a “much-delayed decision and affirmation of Marcos’s defeat” in the 2016 elections, the group nonetheless slammed his announcement that he would run for office in 2022 “ for it brazenly tramples upon the lives and the suffering of the …

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Karapatan raised concerns to the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on yet another red-tagging tirade of Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade, commanding chief of Armed Forces of the Philippines Southern Luzon Command and spokesperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, against the group and its human rights workers.

Mere months after the tragic death of Baby River, the three-month-old daughter of detained community organizer Reina Mae Nasino, the Duterte government “continues to unleash the fangs of inhumanity upon political prisoners,” human rights alliance Karapatan said as it condemned the death of Baby Carlen, the newborn daughter of detained peasant rights activist Nona Espinosa.

Human rights watchdog Karapatan raised alarm on the so-called police “rescue operation” of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Regional Office 7 and the Department of Social Welfare and Development at the bakwit school of Lumad students in the Talamban campus of the University of San Carlos in Cebu City earlier today.

Rights group Karapatan urged the Mandaluyong Regional Trial Court to release detained journalist Lady Ann Salem and Rodrigo Esparago “immediately and unconditionally,” more than a week after charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives against them were dismissed.

The Duterte regime’s “crackdown on dissent is rapidly escalating with the spate of trumped-up charges and warrants being churned out by courts against human rights defenders, and government critics,” human rights watchdog Karapatan stated, as the group assailed the series of arrests of leaders of people’s organizations in Caraga, a barangay captain in Cagayan Valley, …

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Justice remains elusive for the victims of the massacre of nine Tumandok leaders during joint police and military operations in Tapaz, Capiz last December 30, 2020, human rights watchdog Karapatan said, as the group joined other human rights groups and indigenous rights advocates in an indignation protest in front of Camp Crame and Camp Aguinaldo, …

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As human rights alliance Karapatan lauded the lawyers who faced the Supreme Court today for the oral arguments on the 37 petitions aga

Karapatan denounces the warrants of arrest issued against Karapatan National Council member Daisy “Jackie” Valencia and other huma