Lumad girl finds joy amid hardships
Gleeza Joy Belandres (right)
Member organization: Karapatan
Free Khalida Jarrar, free all Palestinian political prisoners!
We, in Commission 3 (Defense of Human Rights at the Collective and Individual Levels in the Civil. Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Fields) of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), vehemently condemn the continuing persecution of Palestinian parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar, former executive director and current vice-chair of the board of directors of Addameer Prisoner …
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KARAPATAN Statement on Rodrigo Duterte’s declarations on State-sponsored violence
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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No human rights in the mind of a corrupt, puppet, and fascist president
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.
BS Aquino’s peace is ‘peace of the graveyard’
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 …
Manilakbayan to AFP’s Iriberri: Arrest and dismantle paramilitary groups
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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More troops, lumad displacements after Manilakbayan hit
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.
Ignoring victims’ calls for justice makes Aquino’s crimes vs the people more severe
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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State forces raped women, 7 of 10 victims are minors
Intl HR Day countdown: Tuwid na daan, wakasan "Soldiers do not only kill, they rape children, too," Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general said on the 5th day of countdown to December 10, International Human Rights Day. "Amid the rising political killings under the BS Aquino regime, 10 women have been raped by state forces; and …
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