Member organization: Karapatan

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN condemns the terrorism financing case against an indigenous community member in Mountain Province, and raised the alarm on the Marcos Jr. regime’s use of fake witnesses to pin down activists. Marcylyn Pilala, a member of the Mountain Province Youth Alliance (MPYA) in her youth, and also a former substitute public school …

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As KARAPATAN concluded its 6th National Congress held in Quezon City, the human rights alliance denounced the denial of entry to the Philippines of one of its solidarity allies and an observer in its recently conducted event. On October 5, 2024, US-based activist Copeland Downs, Chairperson of Portland Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines …

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Philippine elections, already known to be a noisy, rambunctious affair will become even more raucous with the entry of this gaggle of murderers, red- and terrorist-taggers. Three of the most rabidly anti-people personalities have announced their candidacies – Rodrigo Duterte for mayor of Davao City, Ronald Cardema for Laguna board member and his Duterte Youth …

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Hundreds of persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at the Negros Occidental District Jail (NODJ) in Bago City called on the seven Negrense lawmakers at the House of Representatives to help increase their food and medical budget starting January next year. In a petition letter addressed to Representatives Gerardo Valmayor, Alfredo Marañon III, Stephen Joseph Paduano, …

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Peasants are increasingly being subjected to fascist attacks as the Marcos Jr. regime steps up its counter-insurgency war. In the early morning of September 26, 2024, two farmers were extrajudicially killed by soldiers in Masbate. According to field reports from human rights organizations in Masbate, the farmers – Pitot Clores and Onel Camposano – were …

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KARAPATAN secretary general Cristina Palabay criticized Albay Provincial Philippine National Police Director Col. Julius Añonuevo, who, in media interviews, harped on an ID card allegedly found in the house of missing activist Felix Salaveria Jr., instead of providing information on the progress of police investigations on the disappearance of Salaveria and another activist who went …

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Karapatan condemns the violent harassment by armed goons of a group of peasants belonging to the Baybay II Farmers Association in Hacienda Borromeo, Pandacan, Pinamungajan, Cebu. On September 22, 2024, armed men reportedly fired shots at and threatened to kill the peasants who are being forcefully displaced from their lands. The peasants have been tilling …

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Karapatan slammed Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and state authorities for remaining “conspicuously silent” in the face of growing indications that state forces were behind the abductions of James Jazmines and Felix Salaveria Jr. in Tabaco City, Albay on August 23 and August 28, 2024, respectively. “The tell-tale signs of state involvement in the abductions of …

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Today, on the 52nd anniversary of Marcos Sr.’s martial law, the people are faced with the gruesome prospect of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. outstripping the bloody record of the man who handed him the reins of tyranny. To a great extent, the intensifying human rights violations being perpetrated under Ferdinand Marcos Jr. have been made possible …

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KARAPATAN expresses grave concern over reports that a consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) was among three members of the New People’s Army (NPA) rendered hors de combat who were tortured and summarily killed by soldiers in Cagayan province and called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to conduct an …

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