Member organization: Karapatan

"The web of lies woven by BS Aquino during his SONA on the alleviation of poverty in the country, job creation, and immediate response to disasters reflects his disconnect with the real world. By all indications, the lives of the majority of Filipinos have deteriorated immensely under his watch. Shedding crocodile tears to gain the …

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"Money and terror, terror and money—that’s what the promotion of Maj. Gen. Eduardo Año and  Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang is all about. Essentially, this also describes BS Aquino’s brand of governance," Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan said a day before Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA).   

Pres. BS Aquino faces the nation on Monday, July 28, with three impeachment cases slapped against him—two for his presidential pork called Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) and one for entering into the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) with the United States government.  All the impeachment cases boil down to BS Aquino’s betrayal of public trust …

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Karapatan today said the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process’ funds from the Disbursement Allocation Program (DAP) is 300-400 percent bigger than its approved budget in the General Appropriations Act (GAA) for 2011 and 2012.  

"To show their disgust to the BS Aquino administration, political prisoners start their fast today up to BS Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 28," announced Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general. Rights groups led by Karapatan and Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA) staged protest actions in solidarity …

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"For giving away the Philippines to the dogs, BS Aquino should be impeached," said Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay as they signed the impeachment complaint against Pres. Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino for entering into the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) with the government of the United States.

“The BS Aquino is financing paramilitaries through the Disbursement Accelerated Program (DAP) and it has cost the lives of many people.  Definitely, this is not ‘good faith’,” Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan said. 

“Martial law victim na, pinahihirapan pa” QUEZON CITY – Marie Hilao-Enriquez, a well-known martial law victim and one of the members in the Hawaii class suit filed against the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, assailed the BS Aquino-appointed Human Rights Victims Claims Board (HRVCB) in a press conference today.  

“BS Aquino’s tactic of sweeping under the rug human rights violations committed under his watch is the same scheme he is now using to cover up his accountability for carting away billions of people’s money under the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). If the use of DAP is unconstitutional and an impeachable offense, so are human …

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The Infanta Regional Trial Court Branch 65 approved on July 1, the motion for urgent hospitalization of political detainee Maria Miradel Torres at the Taguig-Pateros District Hospital.  “While we welcome the Court’s decision, we demand Torres’ immediate release for humanitarian reason. Torres, who is four months pregnant, is weak from profuse bleeding and is experiencing …

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