Despite efforts to “exploit and weaponize quarantine measures to sabotage the staging of mass mobilizations and demonstrations” as President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) today, July 27, 2020, hundreds and thousands joined protests actions both online and on-ground as well as inside and outside the country to register resistance …
The proliferation of terror-tagging posters and the issuance of protest bans days leading up to President Rodrigo Duterte’s fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) are “blatant acts of cowardice from a fascist and tyrannical regime trembling in fear in the face of the people’s mass resistance,” human rights alliance Karapatan stated.
During the physical filing of the petition on July 23 before the Supreme Court by Karapatan, Bayan, Movement Against Tyranny and other civil libertarians against the Anti-Terrorism Act, Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay, one of the petitioners, said that “the recent erroneous and malicious Philippine government report disseminated among members and observers at the United …
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Separating political prisoner Reina Mae “Ina” Nasino from her newborn child mere days after she gave birth is “cruel and inhumane,” human rights alliance Karapatan asserted, as the group decried the Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 20’s decision to deny Nasino’s urgent motion to allow her to stay with and breastfeed her baby at …
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Human rights alliance Karapatan condemned the continuing military operations in communities threatened by mining operations, saying these operations compound the problems faced by these communities amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Human rights watchdog Karapatan raised alarm that jailing quarantine violators and shaming individuals infected with COVID-19 “would only worsen the impact of the pandemic even further” as the group assailed President Rodrigo Duterte’s orders for the Philippine National Police (PNP) to arrest individuals who violate quarantine protocols to “give [them] a lesson for all time” …
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We, the undersigned 27 civil society organisations, are deeply concerned with the introduction of the National Security Law in Hong Kong. We call on the Governments of China and Hong Kong to repeal this law, which severely clamps down on the rights of the Hong Kong people.
In a petition filed through electronic means before the Supreme Court today, July 19, Karapatan Chairperson Elisa Tita Lubi and Secretary General Cristina Palabay joined other human rights victims and advocates, civil libertarians, and representatives of people’s organizations in assailing the passage of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, calling on the nullification of the recently-signed …
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Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan joined Civicus, the World Organisation Against Torture, and other human rights organizations in commemorating Nelson Mandela Day this July 18 with the launch of the #StandAsMyWitness campaign calling for the human rights defenders’ “immediate release from jail and persecution, and for states, authorities and multi
Human rights watchdog Karapatan strongly warned that the proposal to conduct house-to-house searches led by the Philippine National Police, with local government units, to track and transfer COVID-19 patients in hiding or those without or with mild symptoms to isolation facilities would “further facilitate State terror and police brutality in communities.” Karapatan Secretary General Cristina …
