Media Release Type: Press statement

KARAPATAN to CHR Chair: Pursue independent EJK probe in Negros

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN has asked Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Chairperson Richard Palpal-latoc to look into reports that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) have refused to cooperate with the CHR in Negros in the latter’s investigations into the killings of red-tagged farmers and other marginalized sectors …

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On the Philippine government’s statements at the UNHRC and the Marcos-Duterte admin’s human rights coordinating council

KARAPATAN takes exception to statements by Philippine government representatives at the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland regarding the supposed reforms that it has undertaken to uphold human rights and its plans to establish a human rights coordinating council. If it isn’t crass hypocrisy, it is plain and simple window-dressing. …

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Pahayag ng SELDA sa Pandaigdigang Araw ng mga Kababaihan

PALAYAIN ANG KABABAIHANG BILANGGONG PULITIKAL!PALAYAIN ANG LAHAT NG BILANGGONG PULITIKAL!Pahayag ng Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA)sa Araw ng KababaihanMarso 8, 2024 Mayroon ngayong 799 bilanggong pulitikal na nakapiit sa mga kulungan sa iba’t ibang sulok ng bansa. Isang daan at animnapu’t apat (164) sa kanila ay kababaihan, at marami ang may …

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KARAPATAN: Marcos Jr. lies in full view of int’l audience in ABC interview

In the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. manages to personally avoid incisive questions regarding the grave human rights violations and the plunder of government coffers under his father’s brutal martial law regime. He has subordinates to take the heat for him and attack dogs from the NTF-ELCAC (National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict) …

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On the continuing judicial harassment vs Karapatan, RMP and Gabriela officers

Yesterday, March 7, 2024, KARAPATAN, through its legal counsel, was notified by the Office of the Solicitor General that it intends to appeal the decision of Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 84 Judge Luisito Cortez upholding the acquittal of ten human rights defenders of Karapatan, the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines and Gabriela on …

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No justice for Bloody Sunday victims shows naked impunity in PH

Three years after the Bloody Sunday raids of March 7, 2021, justice remains beyond the victims’ grasp. The Bloody Sunday police and military raids saw simultaneous early morning operations in Cavite, Batangas, Rizal and Laguna, ostensibly to serve warrants on 24 individuals. The raids resulted in the extrajudicial killings of nine activists and the illegal …

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KARAPATAN condemns HR, IHL violations by police, military

Karapatan condemns the spate of human rights violations as well as violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) perpetrated by State forces in the past few weeks. The violations include the brutal killing of civilians and hors de combat, indiscriminate bombings victimizing civilians and showing a disproportionate use of force, enforced disappearance, illegal arrest and detention …

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KARAPATAN denounces enforced disappearance of activist-writer in Zamboanga Sibugay

KARAPATAN condemns the forced disappearance of activist-writer Nelson Bautista and the illegal arrest of his companion Ademar Etol on trumped-up charges. Bautista, 45 and Etol, 64, were arrested in Barangay Balingasan, Siay, Zamboanga Sibugay by police forces who barged into the house they were staying at around 2 a.m. of January 25, 2024. Bautista has …

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Rights group decries bombings, IHL violations in Negros, Panay

Karapatan condemns the heightened military operations in Panay and Negros islands, where the Armed Forces of the Philippines has been resorting to artillery strikes and aerial bombings that have terrorized the civilian population in the affected areas. In Escalante City, Negros Occidental, the 79th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (IBPA) concocted stories about numerous …

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