Member organization: Karapatan

Karapatan: ECQ restrictions on community pantries, unvaccinated individuals and non-APORs are discriminatory and anti-people

As Metro Manila braces for another round of enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), human rights alliance Karapatan said that the threats on humanitarian efforts such as community pantries and food relief missions, against unvaccinated individuals, and those who leave their homes if they are not authorized persons outside of residence (APOR) throughout the duration of the …

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Karapatan presses CHR to investigate killings of Albay activists, reiterates call to stop the killings in PH

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) must pursue an independent investigation into the killings of peasant leader Jaymar Palero and activist Marlon Naperi in Guinobatan, Albay, human rights watchdog Karapatan urged, as the group called into question the police’s “nanlaban” narrative in the killings of two activists — particularly with President Rodrigo Duterte’s marching orders …

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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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