Member organization: Karapatan

Karapatan slams the exploitation and abuse of domestic workers in Hong Kong

Karapatan stands in solidarity with thousands of migrant workers in Hong Kong who marched for justice for domestic worker Erwiana Sulistyaningsih of Indonesia on 19 January 2013. We support their call for Erwiana Sulistyaningsih‘s employers and recruitment agencies to face justice and for reform in laws which prevent domestic workers from reporting abusive employers and …

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Camp Crame political prisoners on fasting to protest conviction of inmate Eduardo Sarmiento

Political prisoners in Camp Crame announced yesterday their participation on the nationwide fasting of political prisoners against the conviction of peace consultant Eduardo Sarmiento. "Makaisang panig siyang hinusgahan na may sala ni Judge Myra Bayot-Quiambao ng Muntinlupa RTC kahit may nalabag na sistema sa maayos na pangangalaga ng ebidensya (isang piraso na fragmentation grenade) at …

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Eduardo Sarmiento’s Declaration of Fasting

Pagpapahayag ng Pag-aayuno (fasting) ni Eduardo Sarmiento   Ako ay magsasagawa ng pag-aayuno komo protesta sa di makatarungang paghahatol sa akin ng reclusion perpetua base sa mga gawa gawa lang na mga bintang. Makaisang panig na isinagawa ni Judge Myra Bayot-Quiambao ng Muntinlupa RTC Branch 203 ang paghuhusga noong Disyembre 11 ng nakaraang taon.

Karapatan scores OPAPP, conviction of NDFP consultant impedes peace talks

Karapatan Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights and other people’s organizations stormed the office of Secretary Teresita "Ging" Deles of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) in protest of the continuing detention and conviction of National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultant Eduardo Sarmiento.   

Karapatan expresses solidarity with Cambodian workers

KARAPATAN Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights – Philippines strongly condemns the violence inflicted by the Cambodian armed forces against protesting workers in Cambodia. Years of exploitation of the workers through sub-standard working conditions and untenable minimum wages have pushed the Cambodian workers to exercise their legitimate right to strike and peacefully express their …

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Arrest of Hacienda Luisita workers a display of BS Aquino’s power trip

Karapatan calls for the immediate pullout of all State military forces, led by the 3rd Mechanized Battalion, paramilitary troops, police, and company guards in Hacienda Luisita “for they are used by BS Aquino to defy Supreme Court decision and the Department of Agrarian Reform’s Notice of Coverage to redistribute the lands to the farmer-workers of …

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$40M US military aid, bane to rights and sovereignty of Filipino people

Human rights group Karapatan considers the $40 million US military aid pledged by US State Secretary John Kerry during his visit in the Philippines as “another hefty addition to the growing war chest of the Aquino and Obama administrations against the Filipino people and the people of Asia and the Pacific.”

After 3 years, Palparan’s arrest still nowhere near: Under Aquino, murderers and rights violators go free – Karapatan

"By all indications, BS Aquino and DILG Sec. Roxas would rather go after the small fish like the ‘martilyo gang’ that recently robbed a mall than to catch and punish butchers like Gen. Jovito Palparan or Pfc. Roderick dela Cruz, one of the suspected killers of Hacienda Luisita farm-worker leader, Ric Ramos, " said Karapatan …

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