Member organization: Karapatan

Karapatan: Bongbong’s announcement to run in 2022 tramples upon history, human rights victims of Marcos dictatorship

While human rights alliance Karapatan welcomed the Supreme Court’s dismissal of Bongbong Marcos’s electoral protest as a “much-delayed decision and affirmation of Marcos’s defeat” in the 2016 elections, the group nonetheless slammed his announcement that he would run for office in 2022 “ for it brazenly tramples upon the lives and the suffering of the …

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Karapatan raises concern to CHR on another of Parlade’s red-tagging tirade

Karapatan raised concerns to the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on yet another red-tagging tirade of Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade, commanding chief of Armed Forces of the Philippines Southern Luzon Command and spokesperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, against the group and its human rights workers.

Karapatan: Crackdown on dissent rapidly escalating with trumped-up charges, arrests of rights defenders

The Duterte regime’s “crackdown on dissent is rapidly escalating with the spate of trumped-up charges and warrants being churned out by courts against human rights defenders, and government critics,” human rights watchdog Karapatan stated, as the group assailed the series of arrests of leaders of people’s organizations in Caraga, a barangay captain in Cagayan Valley, …

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On SolGen Calida’s manifestation during the oral arguments on the terror law at the Supreme Court

Solicitor General Jose Calida’s attempt at dropping a supposedly explosive bombshell during the oral arguments on the petitions against Duterte’s terror law — that the draconian law’s first victims, Aeta farmers Jasper Gurung and Junior Ramos, have supposedly withdrawn their petition for intervention before the Supreme Court — should raise eyebrows, suspicion, and above all, …

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Karapatan: 40 days after Tumandok massacre, justice remains elusive for victims

Justice remains elusive for the victims of the massacre of nine Tumandok leaders during joint police and military operations in Tapaz, Capiz last December 30, 2020, human rights watchdog Karapatan said, as the group joined other human rights groups and indigenous rights advocates in an indignation protest in front of Camp Crame and Camp Aguinaldo, …

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