Media Release Type: Press statement

Photo: PUP Catalyst KARAPATAN expressed its unflinching support for detained community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, who is scheduled to testify in her defense today, November 11, 2024 at Leyte Regional Trial Court Branch 45, as well as development worker Mariel Domequil and KARAPATAN human rights worker Alexander Philip Abinguna. Cumpio, a community journalist, was arrested …

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The recently concluded US elections that saw Donald Trump make a comeback as president is not expected to cause a major shift in the master-puppet relationship between the US and the Philippines. The difference between a Democrat and a Republican US president is much like the difference between two cola brands—the fizz may set them …

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Former Pres. Rodrigo Duterte has decided not to attend today’s Quad Committee (Quadcomm) hearings at the House of Representatives, saying that the investigating committee should just refer to the transcript of the Senate hearing, where he made several self-incriminating statements. Since members of the Quadcomm have announced that they have enough damning evidence against Duterte, …

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Today, as the Filipinos all over the country remember their dead, families of the forcibly disappeared will once again find themselves in limbo. Their loved ones’ absence somehow marks their kinship with the bereaved. But setting them apart is the absence of a body to mourn or a grave to visit. Families of the disappeared …

Surface all desaparecidos! Read More »

Karapatan welcomes the issuance of a temporary protection order for an activist who survived abduction earlier this year, but added that victims must also seek other means to assert their rights. In an en banc resolution dated September 9, 2024 but released yesterday, the Supreme Court took the first step in granting petitioner Francisco “Eco” …

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KARAPATAN denounces the resolution of the Supreme Court (SC), which was received only on October 28, 2024, dismissing with finality the petition for the writ of amparo and habeas data filed by Karapatan, Rural Missionaries of the Philippines and Gabriela on May 6, 2019. The decision came five years after the petition was filed. The …

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Human rights alliance Karapatan disputed claims by Malacañang that the Philippines has “achieved stability and maintained peace and order without foregoing due process nor setting aside the basic human rights of any Filipino.” Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin had issued Malacañang’s statement as a rejoinder to former Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s assertion at the Senate Blue Ribbon …

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