1 April 2016 – Karapatan strongly denounces the violent dispersal of the rally of farmers in Kidapawan City, North Cotabato this morning. According to Karapatan member organization Kawagib, as of this writing, two were killed, eighteen persons were wounded, and around 100 were arrested in the said dispersal. At present, the farmers and members of …
“The issue of rights abuses and your family’s ill-gotten wealth are very much relevant in 2016, and beyond Mr. Marcos,” Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay told vice presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos.
“The non-compliance of the Philippine government with the Comprehensive Agreement on the Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) since it was signed in 1998 proves that a mere change of presidents will NOT bring about just and lasting peace for the Filipino people,” Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said. All three regimes …
Human rights violations unabated as GPH ignores CARHRIHL Read More »
While urban centers are bombarded with advertisements and campaign materials of politicians running for office, BS Aquino and the AFP bombards the remote communities of Lumad with guns and bullets, human rights group Karapatan said.
At the 31st Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Switzerland Geneva, Switzerland – Bread for the World, the Social Service Agency of the Protestant Church in Germany, through its Human Rights Adviser Sieglinde Weinbrenner, delivered an oral intervention on the continuing killings and attacks against human rights defenders in the Philippines and the …
At the 31st Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Switzerland Karapatan files complaint at the UN on deliberate burning of Lumad evacuation center
At the 31st Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Switzerland March 4, 2016, Geneva, Switzerland – Michelle Campos, daughter of slain Lumad leader Dionel Campos, and Karapatan human rights workers Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay and Karapatan-Caraga coordinator Dr. Naty Castro, met United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders …
Daughter of slain Lumad leader to UN Rights Expert: Impunity Persists in the Philippines Read More »
Thirty years after the people’s victory to overthrow the Marcos fascist, corrupt, and puppet regime looms the threat of the return of the Marcos’ son, confidently inching his way to the realm of power with his well of resources from the loot of the past. The past that Marcos Jr arrogantly refers to as the …
30 years of EDSA uprising: People’s discontentment persists, rage mounts Read More »
After 21 years of JASIG “It has been 21 years since the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines signed the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG); and, for 21 years, this agreement continues to be violated by the Philippine Government (GPH) through arrests and detention and abduction of peace …
Peace consultants are arrested, detained, missing Read More »
Counsels for the detained National Democratic Front of the Philippines peace consultant Wilma Austria-Tiamzon manifested in court last February 19 to allow Austria to undergo a follow-up medical checkup and treatment earlier scheduled on March 16, 2016 but has remained pending at the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 216 since it was filed on …
Detained peace consultant Austria-Tiamzon seeks medical checkup Read More »
