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Karapatan slams Lacierda’s statement on Aquino’s human rights record

(Cristina Palabay, Karapatan spokesperson, on the statement of Malacañang spokesperson Edwin Lacierda on Aquino’s human rights record) Broken promises, blame games, unabated human rights violations – these characterize Malacañang’s response to calls for Pres. Aquino to stop the killings and human rights violations under his administration. Malacañang spokesperson Edwin Lacierda’s statement shows the Aquino administration’s …

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Karapatan chides Noynoy Aquino to stop acting like there are no political prisoners

A week before Pres. Noynoy Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), political prisoners from Luzon to Mindanao are conducting a one-week fast to push the call for the release of all political prisoners. “It has been two years since we started to campaign and lobby for the release of political prisoners who are in …

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Aquino waging war against the Filipino people

With his two years of presidency and three State of the Nation Address (SONA), Pres. Noynoy Aquino has already done his own version of “unsheathing the sword of war” and has no more pretensions about it.

UN-SRs noted growing number of killings of rights defenders

Human rights group Karapatan today affirmed the observations of the United Nations Special Rapporteurs (UN-SR) on human rights defenders and extrajudicial killings on the “growing number of threats and killings of rights defenders” in the Philippines. The statement by the UN mandate holders was released on July 9, two weeks prior to Phil. Pres. Noynoy …

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No fun for rights workers and people in PH

As the human rights group expresses its condemnation on the recent extrajudicial killing (EJK) of Willem Geertman, Karapatan today said that the human rights situation in the country under the Aquino administration has gone worse. Cristina Palabay, spokesperson of Karapatan said the rights group has documented 95 victims of extrajudicial killings (EJK) from July …

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ARMAN ALBARILLO, a testimony of the Filipino people’s quest for justice

Karapatan is deeply saddened by the death of Arman Arbarillo, a human rights defender and a guerrilla fighter. Arman reminds us of the terror of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s Oplan Bantay Laya (OBL) and how her favorite butcher, the fugitive Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr., left a trail spattered with blood of more than a thousand …

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Two years of Aquino presidency: Intensified military operations

AFP modernization budget aggravates HR situation, militarization “This is where the people’s taxes go—to buy arms and ammunition to protect the interests of big business and landlords and against innocent civilians and those who defend their lives and livelihood,” said Karapatan spokesperson, Cristina Palabay.

Two years of Aquino Presidency: Increasing repression of political prisoners

Alan Jazmines stealthily transferred to Bicutan jail Government authorities should immediately explain the sudden, stealthy transfer of political prisoner Alan Jazmines from the Philippine National Police (PNP) Custodial Center in Camp Crame to Camp Bagong Diwa in Bicutan early this morning of June 29. Marie Hilao-Enriquez, chairperson of Karapatan slammed the move “because it reeks …

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Two years of Aquino presidency: impunity prevails

Killing of 3rd witness to Ampatuan massacre, testament of prevailing impunity under Aquino Karapatan today scored the reported killing of Alijol Ampatuan, the third witness in the Ampatuan massacre case to have suffered the same fate, as “it bears the seal of impunity prevalent under the Arroyo up to the current Aquino administration.” Karapatan spokesperson …

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Image of Palparan in stencil being painted by members of rights organizations

KARAPATAN dares AFP to open military camps to prove Palparan is not there

“The print on my t-shirt has faded,” said Connie Empeno matter-of-factly. Her shirt displayed her daughter’s photo with the call “Surface Karen and Sherlyn.” Connie is Karen Empeno’s mother, and it has been six years since she started wearing the shirt during ‘camp searches’ to look for her daughter and during mobilizations to press the …

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