Member organization: Karapatan

Karapatan decries killing of two activists in Albay over anti-Duterte graffiti

A few hours before President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated his “shoot-them-dead” orders against alleged communist rebels in his last State of the Nation Address, two activists in Guinobatan, Albay were reportedly gunned down by elements of the Albay Provincial Mobile Force Company, Guinobatan Municipal Police, Regional Mobile Force Battalion 5, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, Regional …

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On Duterte’s 6th State of the Nation Address

President Rodrigo Duterte’s last State of the Nation Address only confirms his deranged desire to continue his kill, kill, kill policy with his long and shameless apologia for the drug war and the bloody counterinsurgency crackdown — even going as brazen as giving the order “shoot them dead” in the halls of Batasan.

Karapatan asserts call to prosecute Duterte for crimes against the Filipino people in his last SONA

Unfazed by strong rains and looming threats of dispersals, human rights alliance Karapatan joined thousands today to call for an end to President Rodrigo Duterte’s “fascist rule and to prosecute him for his crimes against the Filipino people” as various groups and formations marched along Commonwealth Avenue and gathered in various parts of the country …

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Karapatan: Right to peaceably protest for SONA a basic right even amid pandemic

The people’s right to peaceably assemble and protest is a basic human right guaranteed by our Constitution: no law or policy can abridge or prohibit it — and this right remains in effect even amid the pandemic. In fact, it is President Rodrigo Duterte’s criminal negligence of people’s welfare and his fascist attacks that are …

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Karapatan: Arrested Lumad activists in QC are not communist rebels

Lumad activists Julieta Gomez and Niezel Velasco, who were arrested in Quezon City last Friday, July 16, are not communist rebels but leaders of indigenous and humanitarian organizations, human rights alliance Karapatan asserted today, as the group assailed the arrest of the Gomez and Velasco as a “brazen attempt to hinder them from conducting their …

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Immunity is impunity: Karapatan slams Duterte’s planned bid for VP run in upcoming elections

At this point, President Rodrigo Duterte’s agenda in his bid to run for vice president in the upcoming national elections is undeniably clear: he wants immunity as a shameless ploy for impunity. President Duterte knows that cases for his bloody crimes against the Filipino people are waiting for him once his term ends. He knows …

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Despite dismissal of charges vs Aetas under terror law, Duterte gov’t continues terror-tagging with arbitrary designation of NDF

The dismissal of the charges against Aetas Japer Gurung and Junior Ramos “clearly show how the Anti-Terrorism Act is being used to fabricate charges against individuals and arbitrarily tag them as ‘terrorists,’” human rights alliance Karapatan said on Monday, as it slammed the statement of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict …

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