Member organization: Karapatan

“Are Malacañang and local officials afraid that the anti-corruption protests will eventually lead to their doorsteps?” Human rights alliance KARAPATAN asked this as presidential spokesperson Claire Castro sought to quelch public outrage over explosive exposés of bureaucratic corruption by repeating claims made by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) that …

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KARAPATAN assailed the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) for being fixated on filing trumped-up terrorism financing charges and civil forfeiture cases against people’s organization, faith-based institutions and development NGOs, when it should be training its guns on high-ranking government officials and contractors of big-ticket infrastructure projects who are now the subjects of ongoing investigations on bureaucratic …

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KARAPATAN assailed the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) for deflecting public outrage at revelations of large-scale bureaucratic corruption by warning that the “corruption of the Filipino mind” is the most dangerous form of corruption. Said KARAPATAN National Council member Raoul Manuel, “In effect, the NTF-ELCAC is dissuading the youth from …

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KARAPATAN expressed alarm on the multiple reports of incidents of threats and harassment of peasant organizations and their members, as well as similar cases of intimidation against activists in the past weeks. “The Marcos administration has the audacity to claim that it is a ‘long-time champion of international humanitarian law,’ while his National Task Force …

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KARAPATAN supports the protest of more than 600 “persons deprived of liberty,” including political prisoners, at the Negros Occidental District Jail in Bago City, Negros Occidental. We call on the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) to respect the rights and welfare of the prisoners, including their legitimate right to seek redress of their …

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Rights group KARAPATAN called for an urgent independent investigation on the latest incidents of aerial bombings and indiscriminate firing by State security forces in the island of Panay, following reports of the same incidents of bombings in other regions under the Marcos Jr. government. “That these intense military operations are being carried out on International …

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Rights group KARAPATAN condemned the arrest of PISTON member Felixberto Consad based on trumped up charges against the transport sector activist. On August 14, Consad, 61, was at the balcony of their house in Sogod, Southern Leyte, taking care of his grandchild, when a man in plainclothes entered their yard, followed by a uniformed policeman …

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KARAPATAN welcomed the dismissal by the Department of Justice (DOJ) of the terrorist financing charges against Myrna Zapanta, a long-time women’s and indigenous rights activist. The complainants, PCMS Jomar Camat and PCPL John Galvizo of the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-Regional Field Unit 1, alleged that Zapanta was a finance officer of …

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