Member organization: Karapatan

Lies won’t save Duterte from accountability, group tells Kaufman

Campaigns / By / September 29, 2025

The Duterte Panagutin network condemned the dirty tactics employed by Rodrigo Duterte’s counsel Nicolas Kaufman. Kaufman twisted the statement of Press Undersecretary Claire Castro to make it appear that the Philippine government does not oppose the Defense’s request for interim release. But Castro’s own words were: “whatever the decision of the [ICC], the government [of …

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KARAPATAN: Justice for Eric Saber, Free All Victims of September 21 Illegal Arrests!

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN demanded a full and independent investigation into the violent dispersal of the September 21 protests in Manila, the immediate release of all victims of illegal arrest, and accountability from top officials who continue to deny state violence. “DILG Sec. Jonvic Remulla, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno, and the MPD are lying when …

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PAHAYAG NG CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE RETURN OF THE MARCOSES AND MARTIAL LAW (CARMMA) SA IKA-53 ANIBERSARYO NG BATAS MILITAR

Campaigns / By / November 11, 2025

Babahain ng nagpupuyos na taumbayan ang Luneta at iba’t ibang lugar sa Pilipinas sa ika-53 taong anibersaryo ng martial law, ang golden age ng korapsyon sa ating kasaysayan. Babahain sa galit sa pangungurakot at pandarambong ng nagsasabwatang sakim na iilan samantalang kandamatay ang taumbayan sa lagim ng panahon at kahirapan. Babahain sa pagkakaisang wakasan na …

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Karapatan Paralegal Bust Card

Campaigns / By / September 19, 2025

Know your rights! In light of the threats of arrests, remember: stay calm, be observant, assert your rights, demand access to a phone, and ask the name and rank of your arresting officer. Feel free to share, download, and print our paralegal bust card! English version Filipino version

Bato, NTF-ELCAC bill on “terror-grooming” violates youth’s right to organize, freedom of expression and opinion

KARAPATAN assailed Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa for sponsoring Senate Bill No. 1366 entitled “The Terror Grooming Prevention Act” ostensibly to stem recruitment of youth into the New People’s Army (NPA). “Rattled by the youth’s outstanding response to recent revelations of bureaucratic corruption,” said KARAPATAN secretary general Cristina Palabay, “Bato dela Rosa is now foisting …

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Rights group raises alarm on possible coercion of abducted community organizer

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN expressed alarm over the possibility that former University of the Philippines student leader and community organizer Faye Tallow, who was arrested without warrant in Camarines Norte on September 4, 2025, is being subjected to intense coercion by her military and police captors. KARAPATAN earlier had issued a press statement demanding that …

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Rights groups: SC reversal of conviction of killer of Willem Geertman may be a prelude to acquittals of other EJK perpetrators

KARAPATAN and Hustisya, an organization of families and friends of victims of extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations, condemn the reversal by the Supreme Court of the conviction of Marvin Nuguid for the extrajudicial killing of Dutch activist Wilhelm Geertman on July 3, 2012, saying it may be a precursor of reversals of the …

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