Media Release Type: Press statement

First, it was national security adviser Eduardo Año and officials of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) who denounced UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan for calling for the abolition of the NTF-ELCAC. This time around, it is Sen. Imee Marcos who joins the fray, questioning Ms. Khan’s recommendation to do …

KARAPATAN on NTF-ELCAC, Imee Marcos’ statements regarding UNSR Khan’s findings Read More »

Human rights alliance Karapatan welcomes the significant initial findings of UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression Irene Khan during her ten-day official visit in the Philippines. We thank Ms. Khan for the meetings she had with civil society and people’s organizations, survivors, victims and their kin, representatives of peasant and indigenous communities, …

KARAPATAN welcomes UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan’s recom to abolish NTF-ELCAC Read More »

It is no surprise that the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has welcomed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recommendation to file grave oral defamation charges against environmental activists Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro. Obviously, the NTF-ELCAC could not live down the fact that Jhed and Jonila were able to turn …

Karapatan on recent NTF-ELCAC’s statements on abducted environmental activists, red-tagging Read More »

KARAPATAN urges the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and the House of Representatives and Senate human rights committees to conduct thoroughgoing investigations in view of the revelations by whistleblowers Arturo Lascañas and Edgar Matobato that former president Rodrigo Duterte, his daughter Sara and cronies Ronald dela Rosa and Christopher “Bong” Go and others in Duterte’s …

KARAPATAN: CHR, rights committees of HoR and Senate should probe whistleblowers’ revelations vs Duterte et. al. Read More »

Karapatan Central Visayas slams the lies and delusions declared by Atty. Hue Jyro Go, Chief of Staff for the Presidential Task Force on Media Security, during their meeting with UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan yesterday last January 29. The people’s growing movement is in stark contrast to what the fascist institution parroted. The Police Regional …

“All lies and delusions” Karapatan Central Visayas slams of PTFOMS on “satisfactory” state of freedom of expression and HR in the region Read More »

Dear friends, We are sharing with you this joint statement of young environmental activists Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano on the recent resolution of the Department of Justice regarding the perjury complaint against them by 70th Infantry Battalion commander Lt. Col. Ronnel dela Cruz. Karapatan will be sending our statement regarding the resolution within the …

JOINT STATEMENT nila Jonila Castro & Jhed Tamano Read More »

Relatives of slain activists and a mother of a detained political prisoner, along with abduction survivors and union organizers April Dyan Gumanao and Armand Dayoha and leaders of people’s organizations, met with UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan today in Cebu, as they pointed out the role of State security forces, including the NTF-ELCAC, in the …

Kin of victims of rights violations, abduction survivors in Visayas to Special Rapporteur Khan: Justice is elusive under the Marcos Jr. regime Read More »

The much-vaunted UniTeam of the Marcoses and Dutertes is crumbling, with both camps exchanging charges and insults in yesterday’s stand-off rallies at the Quirino Grandstand and in Davao City. On the surface, the great divide between the two warring factions is charter change (cha-cha), with the Marcos Jr. administration pushing to amend the 1987 Constitution …

KARAPATAN on the Marcos-Duterte brawl and the people’s struggle for genuine change Read More »

Karapatan views with grave concern a proposal from an official of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to revive the barangay intelligence network (BIN) purportedly to weed out illegal drugs. This proposal has been announced before with Malacañang issued Memorandum Order No. 54 yesterday, reorganizing the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) to …

Karapatan on Malacañang’s reorganization of NICA, brgy intel network revival Read More »

KARAPATAN condemns the escalating attacks against peasant activists and leaders perpetrated by State security forces. On January 17, 2024, two peasant activists were gunned down in Negros Occidental by elements of the 62nd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army. According to reports reaching Karapatan, Dionisio Baloy, 67, a member of the Kaisahan sa Gamay’ng Mag-uuma …

Rights group denounces killings, threats vs peasant leader, activists Read More »