Member organization: Karapatan

13 illegally arrested on planted evidence, preposterous testimony

“Karapatan demands the immediate release of 13 civilians including an accredited peace consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines as the arrest and detention is illegal and smacks of foul play and dirty tricks,” said Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan.      

BOI-Senate report on Mamasapano downplayed civilian casualties

“The reports of both the PNP Board of Inquiry and the Senate on the Mamasapano carnage sidetracked the seven civilian casualties during the Mamasapano carnage and the hundreds of residents who were displaced during the operation. They, too, were victims of the US-Aquino’s botched Oplan Wolverine/Exodus. They, too, should figure in in BS Aquino’s accountability,” …

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Our country is in dire need for change. Now.

Among everybody else involved in the Mamasapano carnage, BS Aquino is most guilty of insubordination—insubordination of the people’s will and interest for truth and accountability.  Thus, it is totally absurd for Malacañang to threaten with sedition charges his “critics”—the people calling for BS Aquino’s immediate resignation. The people’s resounding call for BS Aquino to resign …

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Killing of fair trade activist to be brought before int’l tribunal

Killing of fair trade activist to be brought before int’l tribunal

On the first death anniversary of fair trade activist Romeo Capalla, human rights advocates, his friends and family marched to Camp Fernando Delgado of the Philippine National Police in Iloilo City to decry the “death of justice in the case of Capalla and all victims of extrajudicial killing in the country.”       

Karapatan writes UN WGAD on Amal Alamuddin’s defense of Glora Arroyo

We would like to express our grave concern and distress over news reports in the Philippines on the complaint of former Phil. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo before the United Nations Working Group for Arbitrary Detention on alleged violation of her civil and political rights. The said complaint was supposedly prepared and written by rights lawyer …

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No room for justice for Ampatuan massacre victims while Aquino is President

"While BS Aquino “Impunity King” is still in power, there will be no room for justice especially with the release on bail of Sajid Ampatuan, one of the perpetrators in the Ampatuan massacre. The rest of the perpetrators in the Ampatuan massacremay be released in no time,”said Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general said on the …

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