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.
Karapatan denounces the blatant red-tagging statements made by President Rodrigo Duterte last night during his televised meeting as the latest in his administration’s attacks against critics, members of the opposition, and activists.
Human rights alliance Karapatan together with families of victims of extrajudicial killings from Hustisya and Rise Up for Life and for Rights, renewed their call on President Rodrigo Duterte “to end once and for all his deadly yet utterly ineffective anti-people programs” such as the war on drugs and the counterinsurgency operations of the National …
Karapatan expresses our condolences to Bayan Muna Rep. Eufemia Cullamat, her family and their community on the recent death of her daughter Jevilyn in Surigao del Sur.
Human rights group Karapatan denounced the “series of possible blatant and brazen violations of human rights and international humanitarian law against consultants of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines in the peace process.”
As the Supreme Court holds the preliminary conference on the 37 petitions against the Anti-Terrorism Act today, human rights alliance Karapatan reasserted that the law should be nullified “precisely because it is unconstitutional and dangerously infringes on basic rights and fundamental freedoms.” Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay, one of the petitioners, said that “Duterte’s terror …
