Karapatan renews its call for the immediate release of 23-year old Reina Mae Nasino, following the death of her 3-month old baby around 8:50 p.m. last night, October 9, 2020, due to acute respiratory distress syndrome, at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH).
As the 45th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution on the Philippines today, Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan challenged the Philippine government to “allow the access of UN human rights mechanisms in the country to assess domestic accountability mechanisms if they are truly working and if they have nothing …
Human rights group Karapatan asserted that an independent and impartial investigation by the United Nations (UN) human rights mechanism and other platforms engaged in human rights issues in the European Union (EU) on the situation of the indigenous peoples seeking sanctuary at the Haran Center run by the United Church of Christ in the Philippines …
Human rights watchdog Karapatan called on the Congress and the Commission on Human Rights to look into all the official social media accounts of 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), as well as those of their top …
Interactive Dialogue on Item 5: Report of the Secretary General 45th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council Oral Intervention by CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation Delivered by Roneo S. Clamor
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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