Human rights alliance Karapatan condemned the continuing military operations in communities threatened by mining operations, saying these operations compound the problems faced by these communities amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Human rights watchdog Karapatan raised alarm that jailing quarantine violators and shaming individuals infected with COVID-19 “would only worsen the impact of the pandemic even further” as the group assailed President Rodrigo Duterte’s orders for the Philippine National Police (PNP) to arrest individuals who violate quarantine protocols to “give [them] a lesson for all time” …
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In a petition filed through electronic means before the Supreme Court today, July 19, Karapatan Chairperson Elisa Tita Lubi and Secretary General Cristina Palabay joined other human rights victims and advocates, civil libertarians, and representatives of people’s organizations in assailing the passage of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, calling on the nullification of the recently-signed …
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Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan joined Civicus, the World Organisation Against Torture, and other human rights organizations in commemorating Nelson Mandela Day this July 18 with the launch of the #StandAsMyWitness campaign calling for the human rights defenders’ “immediate release from jail and persecution, and for states, authorities and multi
Human rights watchdog Karapatan strongly warned that the proposal to conduct house-to-house searches led by the Philippine National Police, with local government units, to track and transfer COVID-19 patients in hiding or those without or with mild symptoms to isolation facilities would “further facilitate State terror and police brutality in communities.” Karapatan Secretary General Cristina …
The arrests of United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) pastor and Karapatan – Bikol Spokesperson Dan San Andres and Bicolana Gabriela Chairperson Jenelyn Nagrampa in Camarines Sur on false charges “signal darker days ahead in the country with the signing of the Anti-Terrorism Act,” human rights watchdog Karapatan said, as the group assailed …
Keeping political prisoner Reina Mae “Ina” Nasino and her newborn baby behind bars is “brutally and grossly merciless,” human rights alliance Karapatan asserted, as the group reiterated its call for the humanitarian release of prisoners — more than three months after Nasino and 21 other political prisoners urgently appealed on the Supreme Court to grant …
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Human rights watchdog Karapatan called on the Philippine government to address and respond to the “very relevant, valid, competent, and independent comments and questions” raised by nine United Nations (UN) Special Procedures on the Anti-Terrorism Act, which the rights group assailed as a “monstrous and draconian piece of legislation that will heavily impact on the …
In a recently published communication to the Philippine government, nine United Nations (UN) Special Procedures expressed their “extremely serious concern” on allegations of violations against human rights defenders in the Philippines.
Human rights watchdog Karapatan reasserted its call for an independent investigation of international human rights bodies into the Duterte administration’s “worsening human rights violations and deplorable crimes against humanity” as it assailed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) creation of a so-called inter-agency panel to investigate the thousands of deaths in the government’s sham drug war.
