KARAPATAN joins peasant rights advocates and other human rights defenders in marking the 20th anniversary of the Hacienda Luisita massacre that claimed the lives of at least seven persons and caused injuries to more than a hundred. Also arrested and detained were 133 persons, including 16 women and two minors, who were charged with physical …
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Today, November 15, 2024, as PEN commemorates the International Day of Imprisoned Writers, the Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA) stands in solidarity with all imprisoned and persecuted writers around the world and supports the call from PEN International for their immediate release. SELDA demands that the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. regime release …
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Hustisya, an organization of families and friends of victims of extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations, joins the family and colleagues as well as environmental defenders in demanding justice for slain botanist Leonardo Co, even as they decry the glaring injustice in the government’s continuing failure to hold his killers accountable. Co, who led …
Kin, friends of EJK victims continue the call for justice for botanist Leonard Co Read More »
KARAPATAN strongly condemns the reported killing of a youth in Northern Samar by soldiers. Jerick Jugal, a resident of Barangay Sulitan, Catubig town was allegedly killed with another individual in an encounter between the 20th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (IBPA) and the New People’s Army (NPA) on November 5, 2024 in Catubig. As …
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Cora Jazmines, wife of James Jazmines, represented by the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL); and Gabreyel and Felicia Ferrer, daughters of Felix Salaveria Jr., represented by La Viña, Zarate and Associates, impleaded Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin in separate petitions for writs of amparo and habeas data, to demand that …
Now that we have heard more of the same self-incriminating statements from former Pres. Rodrigo Duterte in his testimonies before the Quad Committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate, it is time for Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to take the decisive step of working and coordinating with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to …
KARAPATAN welcomes the probe on red-tagging in Mindanao held on November 11 and 12, 2024 by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR). The activity is part of a series of the public inquiry on red-tagging being conducted by the CHR in different areas of the country that began in July 2024. In Southern Mindanao, ten …
Karapatan joined environmental rights activists and other human rights defenders in expressing support for Francisco “Eco” Dangla who will be attending his first hearing at the Court of Appeals on his petition for writs of amparo and habeas data today, November 12, 2024. Dangla and his companion, fellow environmental activist Joxelle “Jak” Tiong, were abducted …
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KARAPATAN condemns the entry of the Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations (COCOPEA) into the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) as a private sector representative. COCOPEA is an umbrella group of several private school organizations. Its membership in the NTF-ELCAC means that the task force’s so-called “information drives,” which are …
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KARAPATAN expressed skepticism over Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla’s newly created task force to probe extrajudicial killings (EJK) under the Duterte regime’s war on drugs. “Riddling the horizon with task forces has so far not been useful in dispensing justice for the victims,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay. “We seriously doubt that Secretary Remulla’s …
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