Member organization: Karapatan

Bring the bakwit home for Christmas

Int’l Human Rights Day countdown: Tuwid na daan, wakasan "We demand the immediate pull-out of troops from Lumad communities to stop the exodus of people from the villages and to let the bakwit (evacuees) go home for the holidays," Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said, as Karapatan criticized the BS Aquino regime’s callousness on the …

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BS Aquino regime’s Oplan Bayanihan killed 28 children

Int’l Human Rights Day countdown: Tuwid na daan, wakasan  “Whoever hails to continue BS Aquino’s gruesome trail, the ‘tuwid na daan’ (righteous path), is as monstrous as Aquino and his soldiers," Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general said today, nine days before the commemoration of the International Human Rights Day. “The path is awashed with the …

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AFP-backed paramilitaries killed 94 civilians under the BS Aquino regime

Int’l Human Rights Day countdown: tuwid na daan wakasan “We call on the Aquino regime to enforce the warrant of arrest against the members of the Magahat-Bagani paramilitary groups involved in the September 1 massacre of Alcadev executive director Emerito Samarca and Lumad leaders Dionel Campos and Juvello Sinzo. It has been three months since …

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More rights violations as APEC Summit takes place

"The BS Aquino government attempts to hide the images of extreme poverty and peoples’ resistance in Metro Manila from the APEC delegates as its armed forces intensify operations to silence the people,” Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general as reports of rights violations reached Karapatan.      

Teacher's cottage of ALCADEV burned to the ground

THE AFP SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE CONTINUING ATTACKS AGAINST LUMAD SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES!

We strongly condemn the recent burning of our ALCADEV satellite school in Sitio Km. 30, Brgy. Padiay, Sibagat, Agusan del Sur! At around 2:00 in the morning of November 12, six unidentified men burned down the teachers’ cottage destroying books, school supplies, instructional and learning materials, stocks of rice, power generator set, audio-video equipment, sewing …

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