Member organization: Karapatan

Two women activists and officers of human rights group Karapatan were recently commended for their staunch efforts in the defense of human rights.

"There was never any sincere attempt on the part of the Duterte government to address the root causes of the drug menace to begin with.

Human rights group Karapatan expressed its solidarity with the families of the 58 defenseless victims of the infamous Ampatuan Massacre in commemorating its 10th year and in urging the government to convict the butcher’s merciless masterminds.

Human rights group Karapatan strongly criticized the de facto martial law situation in Negros, Eastern Visayas and Bicol that has resulted in human rights violations in the said regions, after a year of implementation of Pres.

Human rights alliance Karapatan said, after President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent joint command conference with the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), that the “NTF’s militarist whole-of-nation approach to the armed confli

Human rights alliance Karapatan today commented that “even as Pres.

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.

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

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