In statements delivered via video and submitted at the 45th United Nations Human Rights Council (UN HRC) session yesterday, Karapatan welcomed the report of the UN Secretary General on reprisals, as “it reflects the systemic patterns of reprisals which we see in the Philippines against human rights defenders engaging with the UN.”
Interactive Dialogue on Item 5: Report of the Secretary General 45th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council Oral Intervention by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development Delivered by Cristina Palabay
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Philippine National Police (PNP), and the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) should immediately and fully disclose before the public all of the so-called “advocacy groups” and the fake Facebook accounts that they support and manage, human rights watchdog Karapatan demanded on Wednesday, …
While there are numerous human rights challenges that Facebook has to address, shutting down the platform, when it doesn’t suit the current administration’s wishes to maintain pages that incite violence and foment lies on activists and those that will unduly influence the election, is tantamount to censorship.
Human rights watchdog Karapatan welcomed on Tuesday the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) decision to reclassify the Ampatuan massacre as “ongoing/unresolved” following the letter sent by the families of the massacre’s victims, media groups, and various human rights organizations and advocates to UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay last September 12 appealing the …
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Amid growing international condemnation on the Duterte administration’s human rights violations in the Philippines, human rights alliance Karapatan said that passing the Philippine Human Rights Act in the United States — which seeks to block or suspend US government funding for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) — …
Human rights watchdog Karapatan on Wednesday welcomed Facebook’s takedown of fake accounts linked to the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines, which the group said was “a damning evidence of State-sponsored online attacks, red-tagging and mass deception in the social media platform.”
Human rights alliance Karapatan decried President Rodrigo Duterte’s “glaring efforts to vilify human rights defenders in the Philippines and to undermine their calls for accountability” as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) earlier today. Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay stated that Duterte “is posturing in making desperate pleas before the international community that …
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When the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law 48 years ago, the nation was plunged into an era of darkness as the horrors of a fascist rule was unleashed upon the Filipino people.
Promoting Metro Manila police chief Debold Sinas shows “not only a glaring double standard of justice and law enforcement in the country but how this fascist regime shamelessly coddles and rewards human rights violators,” human rights watchdog Karapatan asserted, as the group assailed Philippine National Police chief Camilo Cascolan’s proposals to promote Sinas to a …
