Member organization: Karapatan

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 …

Manilakbayan to AFP’s Iriberri: Arrest and dismantle paramilitary groups Read More »

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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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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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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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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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 …

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