KARAPATAN and the Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainee Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners, welcomed the San Fernando Regional Trial Court Branch 47’s decision to grant the demurrer to evidence of four peasant rights activists arrested in Mexico, Pampanga in July 2024 on trumped-up charges of illegal possession of firearms …
KARAPATAN condemned the escalation of the Zionist genocidal war against the Palestinian people marked by the decision of the Israeli Security Cabinet to send ground troops for the military occupation of Gaza City. Turning a deaf ear to protests from the international community, and emboldened by the US’ condonation of the plan, Israeli forces implemented …
KARAPATAN denounces the hypocrisy of the Marcos Jr. regime for projecting itself as a “champion” of international humanitarian law (IHL), in the middle of enforcing a so-called National Action Plan for Unity, Peace and Development (NAP-UPD), a counter-insurgency program that serves as the blueprint for systematic violations of IHL, with the National Task Force to …
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Desaparecidos (Families of the Disappeared for Justice) congratulated film director JL Burgos, the Burgos family and the entire crew of “Alipato at Muog” for being nominated in several categories in the 73rd Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) Awards. “Alipato at Muog”, a documentary released last year as part of the Cinemalaya 20 …
Desaparecidos: FAMAS nomination of “Alipato at Muog” an ode to the disappeared Read More »
KARAPATAN condemns the latest reported incidents of repression in Ilocos Norte and Agusan del Sur, and called upon the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to conduct a thorough investigation. In the span of a day, three individuals were forcibly taken by military elements with the whereabouts of two of them still unknown. On the night …
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On the third day of the Asia Pacific Regional Conference on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) at the New World Hotel in Makati City, KARAPATAN and activists from various groups protested at the venue of the conference and denounced the Marcos regime’s hosting of the event as “another act of hypocrisy and window-dressing before the international …
Karapatan renewed its call to put Sara Duterte on trial to hold her accountable for her misuse of hundreds of millions of pesos in Confidential and Intelligence Funds (CIF). The refusal of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his lieutenants to go ahead with Sara Duterte’s trial is rooted in their fear of losing their opportunity to …
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Rights group KARAPATAN condemned the harassment of Kyle Domequil, sister of detained humanitarian worker Marielle Domequil, one of the Tacloban 5. “The military and elements of the state are too desperate to silence the Domequil sisters, because they cannot deny the fact that they are speaking out the truth, first in the unjust arrest and …
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Human rights alliance KARAPATAN denounced the Marcos regime’s hosting of the Asia Pacific Regional Conference on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) as “another act of hypocrisy and window-dressing before the international community, amid numerous human rights and IHL violations under the current administration.” The conference opens today, August 11, 2025 until the 14th, according to the …
Human rights groups Karapatan and Hustisya, an organization of families and friends of victims of extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations, mark the fifth anniversary of the killing of peasant leader Randall “Ka Randy” Echanis with renewed calls for justice and accountability. Ka Randy was stabbed 12 times by suspected state agents who broke …
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