Member organization: Karapatan

On November 23, 2015, at around 12:30 in the morning,  Jose Nayve, Armando Matres, George Bruce and Rommel Nuñez were arbitrarily arrested by the elements of the  Philippine National Police (PNP) at a “peryahan” in Brgy. Manggahan, General Trias, Cavite. The police allegedly was in a hot pursuit operation after perpetrators of an explosion that …

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KARAPATAN Statement regarding Duterte’s repeated declarations justifying and encouraging state-sponsored violence, specifically the resort to extrajudicial killings, in order to curb criminality and impose law and order KARAPATAN human rights alliance denounces presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte’s repeated, unabashed, and categorical statements justifying the state’s use of extrajudicial killings as a solution to social ills as …

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Today, human rights groups, victims and relatives of human rights violations and members of progressive groups bring before the public an image of a “jailed Noynoy” as a symbol of their desire to see the real-life Aquino in jail for his offenses against people’s rights.       

Int’l Human Rights Day countdown: Tuwid na daan, wakasan "There is no, and there will never be, peace in BS Aquino’s ‘tuwid na daan,’" Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said on the eve of the 65th International Human Rights Day. "There will be more human rights violations, as his counter-insurgency program Oplan Bayanihan approaches its …

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Int’l Human Rights Day Countdown: Tuwid na daan, wakasan.   QUEZON CITY – From one Surigao native to another. A lumad youth who lost her father and a school director from paramilitary killings demand Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Hernando Iriberri to arrest the killers to show his sincerity to bring justice to the …

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Int’l Human Rights Day countdown: Tuwid na daan, wakasan   Human rights day for the lumads in Mindanao is a farce, says the group which headed the Manilakbayan ng Mindanao that called national attention on lumads displaced by the military.  

Intl Human Rights Day countdown: Tuwid na daan, wakasan Following the call of the relatives and victims of human rights violations to jail BS Aquino, Karapatan today scored the regime’s conspicuously dedma attitude on the unabated killings as a result of its counterinsurgency program Oplan Bayanihan. “We are one with the call of the victims …

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