Karapatan: Duterte admin continues to evade accountability on drug war killings, rights violations
Human rights alliance Karapatan today commented that “even as Pres.
Member organization: Karapatan
Bicutan political prisoners rap “sinister” scheme to dump them in far-flung jails
Political prisoners rapped the “sinister and inhumane scheme” now being rolled out through court motions to move them out of Camp Bagong Diwa, Bicutan, Taguig City to “harsher and less secure conditions” in local jails mostly outside Metro Manila.
Karapatan statement on the 1000th day of Senator De Lima’s unjust incarceration
As today marks the 1000th day of the incarceration of Sen. Leila de Lima, Karapatan expresses its solidarity in the call for her immediate release and for the dismissal of the trumped-up charges filed against her.
More than a thousand rights advocates to DOJ from 26 countries: dismiss trumped up charges vs Karapatan, RMP, Gabriela
Yesterday, November 19, the Change.org petition of more than a thousand individual rights advocates calling for the dismissal of the trumped up and malicious perjury charges against twelve leaders of Karapatan, the Rural Missionaries of the Philipp
Detention of Cambodian rights leaders, dissolution of Maldivian rights group signs of closing civic spaces in Asia Pacific
Philippine human rights group Karapatan joins other human rights groups and advocates in Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific region in expressing the strongest condemnation on the growing threats and attacks on human rights defenders in the region, particularly the detention of Cambodian human rights leader Mu Sochu
Karapatan hits DND, AFP for maliciously tagging religious and aid groups as “legal fronts”
Human rights group Karapatan expresses its deep concern over the recent presentation made by the Department of National Defense and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) which tagged various religious and humanitarian organizations as fronts of the “Communist Terrorist Group.” On Tuesday, November 5, while presenting the AFP Modernization Program in a hearing …
Karapatan questions QC judge’s role in weaponizing the law to target activists
Human rights group Karapatan, along with various people’s organizations, trooped to the Quezon City Hall of Justice on Wednesday, November 6, 2019 to question and denounce the acts of an executive judge who issued the patently baseless search warrants that led to the raids of offices of progressive groups and the arbitrary arrest of dozens …
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Series of raids, killing of former political prisoner and disappearance of former Karapatan officer mark intensifying crackdown
Human rights group Karapatan strongly assails the Duterte government and its whole gamut of state forces for orchestrating an intensifying crackdown against legal organizations and vocal activists. Progressive advocacy groups such as Karapatan, Bayan, Gabriela, Bayan Muna, among others, have battled through different governments and numerous repressive policies.
Karapatan protests DND request to transfer peace consultant Frank Fernandez from Taguig to Laguna
In a letter dated July 25, 2019, the Department of National Defense (DND), through Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, requested the transfer of peace consultants Frank Fernandez and his wife Cleofe Lagtapon from the Metro Manila District Jail Annex 4 to the Laguna Provincial Jail.
“Evidence” seized from raids, mass arrests in Bacolod all planted by operatives amid gov’t bid to silence and discredit critics
Human rights group Karapatan strongly decried the coordinated raids and mass arrests conducted against activists and progressive organizations in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental and in Manila on Thursday, October 31. The rights group asserted that the evidence allegedly gathered from the raids were planted, and were mere “Halloween dirty tricks” by the Duterte regime to …