Member organization: Karapatan

Rights group KARAPATAN denounced the Marcos Jr. regime’s National Action Plan for Unity, Peace and Development (NAP-UPD), a counter-insurgency program that will worsen violations of human rights and IHL, with the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) as one of the lead agencies, calling it a “national plan for state terrorism.” …

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KARAPATAN condemned the spate of harassment incidents against youth and church activists in Tacloban City in the past several days and called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to take decisive steps in calling the attention and put a stop to these forms of threats and bullying by the military and the National Task …

KARAPATAN to CHR: Take decisive steps to stop threats, bullying by military, NTF-ELCAC vs youth activists, church workers in Eastern Visayas Read More »

August 2025 marks the eighth year since the killings of Kian delos Santos, Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo “Kulot” de Guzman, who were killed on August 16 and 18, 2017 in Caloocan City during the Duterte regime’s bloody war on drugs. It will be remembered that prior to the killings of Kian, Carl and Kulot, Duterte …

KARAPATAN: Justice remains elusive for “drug war” victims of Duterte et.al. Read More »

Today, on the 17th of August 2025, KARAPATAN remembers Zara Alvarez, one of its most courageous and dedicated human rights workers, who was gunned down by suspected state agents near her home in Bacolod City five years ago under the fascist Duterte regime. As Duterte enjoys the right to due process accorded by the International …

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KARAPATAN welcomed the acquittal by the Taguig City Regional Trial Court Branch 266 of four activists arrested since 2014 on trumped-up charges of kidnapping with murder and frustrated murder. Ordered released were National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultants Renante Gamara and Tirso Alcantara, peasant organizer Dionisio Almonte, and construction workers Diony Borre and …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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