As the world marks the anniversary of the 1998 adoption of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders today, December 9, 2020, Karapatan scored the Duterte administration “over the worsening attacks against movements, groups and individuals fighting for people’s rights and freedoms, with the rising tide of state terror in the Philippines.”
Two days before the commemoration of the International Human Rights Day, human rights alliance Karapatan said that the “pronouncements from high government officials, led by none other than the fascist-in-chief President Rodrigo Duterte himself, lay bare their dangerous rhetoric that exhibits their willful mangling of what human and people’s rights in the country means.”
The irony of this so-called Human Rights Summit is not lost on human rights advocates, victims of human rights violations and the general public.
Employing physical violence in enforcing quarantine protocols is “not only utterly ineffective in curbing the pandemic but ultimately dangerous,” human rights watchdog Karapatan said on Sunday as the group assailed Philippine National Police (PNP) Maj. Gen. Debold Sinas’s proposal to use “yantok” or rattan sticks to hit violators of physical distancing measures for the holiday …
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Human rights group Karapatan criticized Philippine National Police chief General Debold Sinas for his recent statements regarding police actions during their operations that has led to the killing of Eugenia Magpantay and Agaton Topacio, both consultants of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines last week, November 25, and the arrest of woman peasant organizer …
It would do well for former General Esperon, Undersecretary Badoy and Undersecretary Uson to read well the complaint that we filed at the Ombudsman yesterday because what we filed are very serious charges on their crimes against humanity, their graft and corrupt practices as public officers in their incitement of undue injury to Karapatan, and …
On December 4, 2020, days after the last Senate committee hearing on red-tagging, Karapatan filed criminal and administrative charges against the ranking officials of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and former PCOO Undersecretary Mocha Uson. The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) serves as Karapatan’s counsel in this case.
At a protest action outside the Department of Interior and Local Government office in Quezon City, human rights alliance Karapatan called for the defunding and abolition of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) which, the group said, “has only ramped-up the Duterte administration’s campaign of lies, red-tagging, and mass murder” …
Karapatan denounces the recent arrest of 32-year old Amanda Echanis, a woman peasant organizer of Amihan, a federation of women peasants, in Cagayan and the planting of evidence against her. Amanda was reportedly arrested in the course of the service of search warrants in Brgy. Carupian, Baggao, Cagayan at dawn on December 2, 2020 by …
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It is disappointing that a great part of the Senate Committee on National Defense hearing on red-tagging was used as a platform for double victimization, including victim-blaming, of those whose lives, liberty and security have been put at extreme risk because of the policy and practice of red-tagging.
