KARAPATAN has followed up Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla’s latest pronouncements of an intersection between the perpetrators of the drug war-related killings and the abductors and likely murderers of the “missing sabungeros,” saying that “these may be the same people involved in the enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killings of activists.” Information disclosed by a whistleblower to …
Karapatan assailed the renewed security arrangements entered into by Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in his state visit to the United States that would redound to more US military funding and armaments for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for use in its brutal counter-insurgency war. Said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay, “In meetings between US …
Marcos-Trump agreements during state visit will worsen rights situation in PH Read More »
Dear friends, On July 18, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) launched Defending in Numbers: Reclaiming CIvic Space, Unbroken Voices, which analyses the situation of human rights defenders (HRDs) in Asia in 2023 and 2024, including the Philippines. The program launch was held at the Commission on Human Rights, sponsored by the …
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Karapatan said that the arrest by the Interpol of Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa is long overdue, after Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin hinted on Dela Rosa’s impending arrest in a recent media interview. According to Bersamin, the Philippine government would hand over Dela Rosa to the Interpol the same way it ceded Duterte should there …
As social movements, groups and the United Nations commemorate July 18 as Nelson Mandela International Day, and days before the fourth State of the Nation Address of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., human rights alliance KARAPATAN scored the Marcos administration for its heightened attacks against human rights defenders and communities through illegal or arbitrary arrests, judicial …
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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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