Victims of Arroyo Regime United for Justice
Recent reports on a video drone footage indicating that slain New People’s Army leader Roger Fabillar was alive and possibly rendered hors de combat during the incident, as well as the killing of two minors, ages 15 and 17 years old, further expose the chilling massacre of 19 individuals in Toboso, Negros Occidental. “Marcos’s Armed …
QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES – KARAPATAN and HUSTISYA (Victims United for Justice) welcomed the November 28 judgment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Appeals Chamber upholding the Pre-Trial Chamber I’s earlier decision denying former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s request for interim release. The judgment, which was delivered in an open court and live-streamed via the ICC …
Today, the 28th of November, HUSTISYA (Victims United for Justice) marks the eighth anniversary of the ambush-killing of human rights worker Elisa Badayos. At the time of her killing in 2017, Badayos was the regional coordinator of KARAPATAN in the Visayas. She was leading a 30-strong fact-finding mission in Bayawan, Negros Oriental to investigate reports …
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KARAPATAN and HUSTISYA (Victims United for Justice) marked the fifth anniversary of the brutal killing of National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultants Agaton Topacio and Eugenia Magpantay today, November 25, 2025. The couple, both 68 years old at the time, were gunned down in the early morning of November 25, 2020 in their …
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HUSTISYA (Victims United for Justice) expressed its full solidarity with environmental defender Francisco “Eco” Dangla as he filed a manifestation with the Supreme Court, after the Court of Appeals (CA) denied his petitions for writs of amparo and habeas data. A writ of amparo protects the rights to life, liberty and security against extrajudicial killings …
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Human rights alliance KARAPATAN and HUSTISYA (Victims United for Justice) express their profoundest solidarity with press freedom advocates as they commemorate the 16th anniversary of the Ampatuan massacre that claimed the lives of 58 people, including 32 media workers. The Ampatuan massacre of November 23, 2009 stands as the single deadliest event for journalists worldwide …
Thieves protect their own. Murderers shield each other. The Senate’s recent resolution urging house arrest for former President Rodrigo Duterte is proof that our institutions have chosen to side with the perpetrators, not the victims. This resolution is not about justice. It is about shielding power. It spits on the memory of the thousands of …
KARAPATAN and Hustisya, an organization of families and friends of victims of extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations, condemn the reversal by the Supreme Court of the conviction of Marvin Nuguid for the extrajudicial killing of Dutch activist Wilhelm Geertman on July 3, 2012, saying it may be a precursor of reversals of the …
Human rights groups Karapatan and Hustisya, an organization of families and friends of victims of extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations, mark the fifth anniversary of the killing of peasant leader Randall “Ka Randy” Echanis with renewed calls for justice and accountability. Ka Randy was stabbed 12 times by suspected state agents who broke …
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Human rights alliance Karapatan and Hustisya (Victims United for Justice), whose representatives are complainants in the second impeachment complaint filed against Vice President Sara Duterte, assailed a Supreme Court (SC) ruling stating that the articles of impeachment against her are unconstitutional for having allegedly violated the ban on the conduct of more than one impeachment …
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