Rights group KARAPATAN called for an urgent independent investigation on the latest incidents of aerial bombings and indiscriminate firing by State security forces in the island of Panay, following reports of the same incidents of bombings in other regions under the Marcos Jr. government. “That these intense military operations are being carried out on International …
Desaparecidos (Families of the Disappeared United for Justice) congratulates film director JL Burgos, the Burgos family and the entire crew of “Alipato at Muog” (Flying Embers and Fortress) for winning Best Picture and Best Director at the 73rd Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) Awards Night on August 22. “Alipato at Muog”, an …
Rights group KARAPATAN condemned the arrest of PISTON member Felixberto Consad based on trumped up charges against the transport sector activist. On August 14, Consad, 61, was at the balcony of their house in Sogod, Southern Leyte, taking care of his grandchild, when a man in plainclothes entered their yard, followed by a uniformed policeman …
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KARAPATAN welcomed the dismissal by the Department of Justice (DOJ) of the terrorist financing charges against Myrna Zapanta, a long-time women’s and indigenous rights activist. The complainants, PCMS Jomar Camat and PCPL John Galvizo of the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-Regional Field Unit 1, alleged that Zapanta was a finance officer of …
Rights group KARAPATAN denounced the Marcos Jr. regime’s National Action Plan for Unity, Peace and Development (NAP-UPD), a counter-insurgency program that will worsen violations of human rights and IHL, with the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) as one of the lead agencies, calling it a “national plan for state terrorism.” …
Rights group denounces Marcos Jr’s NAP-UPD as “national action plan for state terrorism” Read More »
KARAPATAN condemned the spate of harassment incidents against youth and church activists in Tacloban City in the past several days and called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to take decisive steps in calling the attention and put a stop to these forms of threats and bullying by the military and the National Task …
August 2025 marks the eighth year since the killings of Kian delos Santos, Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo “Kulot” de Guzman, who were killed on August 16 and 18, 2017 in Caloocan City during the Duterte regime’s bloody war on drugs. It will be remembered that prior to the killings of Kian, Carl and Kulot, Duterte …
KARAPATAN: Justice remains elusive for “drug war” victims of Duterte et.al. Read More »
Today, on the 17th of August 2025, KARAPATAN remembers Zara Alvarez, one of its most courageous and dedicated human rights workers, who was gunned down by suspected state agents near her home in Bacolod City five years ago under the fascist Duterte regime. As Duterte enjoys the right to due process accorded by the International …
The Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainee Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners, congratulates Jazrene Gonzales for winning the Excellence Prize at the Korea Gyeonggi International Film Festival for SDGs 2025 for her film “Silent Spaces.” Gonzales’ film directorial debut “Silent Spaces” traces the story of SELDA Vice Chairperson Danilo dela …
Torture survivors laud award-winning docu film on political prisoners in PH Read More »
KARAPATAN welcomed the acquittal by the Taguig City Regional Trial Court Branch 266 of four activists arrested since 2014 on trumped-up charges of kidnapping with murder and frustrated murder. Ordered released were National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultants Renante Gamara and Tirso Alcantara, peasant organizer Dionisio Almonte, and construction workers Diony Borre and …
