KARAPATAN welcomes the filing of a bill at the House of Representatives by the Makabayan bloc representatives which seeks to include fragile health and advanced age as additional grounds for the release on recognizance of indigent prisoners. Joining Reps. Antonio Tinio of ACT Teachers Partylist and Renee Co of Kabataan Partylist in refiling the bill …
KARAPATAN assailed the Bureau of Corrections’ (BuCor) permanent ban of Kapatid spokesperson Fides Lim from visiting prison camps under its jurisdiction, saying it violates human rights standards set under a domestic law in the Philippines and the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. “Considering that, by its own admission, the Bureau of …
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KARAPATAN marked the first anniversary of the decision by a Tagum City court on trumped up charges against 13 indigenous peoples rights advocates, including former legislators, by renewing calls for the reversal of what it called an “unjust verdict.” On July 15, 2024, the Tagum City Regional Trial Court Branch 2 decided against former Bayan …
The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has been busy of late trying to deflect moves questioning its very existence for being, and seeking an end to its red-tagging antics. The NTF-ELCAC is flailing against bills recently filed by ACT Teachers Partylist Rep. Antonio Tinio and Kabataan Partylist Rep. Renee Co …
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KARAPATAN welcomes a Supreme Court decision dated May 6, 2025 granting a temporary protection order to the wife and immediate family of an activist abducted in Albay in August 2024. The copy of the said decision was received by the National Union of Peoples Lawyers on July 3, 2025. In the same ruling, the Supreme …
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KARAPATAN lambasted the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) for filing a motion for reconsideration with the Court of Appeals (CA) seeking to bring back to jail an ailing octogenerian who had been wrongly arrested and detained. Eighty-one year old Prudencio “Tay Pruding” Calubid Jr. was ordered released by the CA’s 16th Division on June …
KARAPATAN called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to investigate the suspicious killing of a young Lumad farmer in Surigao del Sur last June. Twenty-five year old Manobo farmer Elioterio Ugking was killed inside the patrol base of the 9th Special Forces Company (SFC) in Km. 9, Sitio Simowao, Barangay Diatagon, Lianga town on …
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Five years of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020 and 13 years of its evil twin, the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act (TFPSA), have proven that they are grave threats to democracy and to the exercise of civil liberties and fundamental rights guaranteed by the Philippine Constitution and international human rights treaties and norms. …
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Karapatan condemns the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in Bacolod City for deliberately delaying the transmission of documents needed to process the bail of detained human rights defender and development worker Felipe Gelle, who has been in custody by the CIDG since June 25, 2025. Gelle, who is part of the staff of Paghida-et …
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Karapatan calls for the immediate release of five cultural activists arrested in Cavite on June 28, 2025. The activists—Shenice Wacan, Ronaldo Valderrama, Andrew Peña, Denn Martizano and Christine Quillosa—collectively called the Imus 5, were arrested in Pasong Buaya, Imus City as they were about to create protest art against the widespread land-use conversion and demolitions …
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