KARAPATAN is in full solidarity with our member organization Bahaghari and the LGBTQ+ community as they launch Stonewall Philippines, a gathering that references the series of militant protests by the gay community in the US triggered by a violent police raid on June 28, 1969 on the Stonewall Inn, then a popular bar in New …
GENEVA — Rights defenders of the Philippine UPR Watch welcome the opposition of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Office of the Prosecutor to former President Rodrigo Duterte’s request for interim release. The Prosecutor’s position underscores what victims and human rights advocates have asserted: Duterte remains a continuing threat to justice, the integrity of the investigation, …
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GENEVA – Members of the Philippine UPR Watch delegation coming from the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) strongly condemned the recent escalation of violence and destruction in the Middle East triggered by the attacks of the United States and Israel on Iran. Bishop Joseph Agpaoa, acting general secretary of the United Church …
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KARAPATAN condemns in the strongest terms the killing of former Karapatan-SOCSKSARGENDS deputy secretary general and Hustisya-SOCSKSARGENDS secretary general Ali Macalintal, also a former radio broadcaster of RPN XDX. Macalintal was reportedly shot dead yesterday, June 23, 2025, by an unknown assailant. According to reports by local media, Macalintal was shot several times inside by a …
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Former Karapatan SOCSKSARGEN chapter deputy secretary general Ali Macalintal, also a former radio broadcaster of RPN XDX, was reportedly shot dead today, June 23, 2025. According to reports by local media, Macalintal was shot several times inside an acupuncture clinic in General Santos City. Macalintal, also a member of the LGBTQIA community, coorganized and participated …
A coordinator of Rise Up for Life and for Rights, a group of church workers and families of victims of extrajudicial killings in the “drug war,” expressed support for the recommendation of UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression and opinion Irene Khan for the Philippines to return to the International Criminal Court. United Methodist …
The Philippine UPR Watch, a network of faith-based and human rights organizations engaging with the UN Human Rights Council, said that the National Task Force to End the Local Communist Armed Conflict’s (NTF-ELCAC) official statement on the report of Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion Irene Khan is replete with lies. “The NTF-ELCAC’s …
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Karapatan condemned the US bombardment of three nuclear sites in Iran on June 22, 2025, in an ill-disguised move to trigger regime change in the staunchly anti-imperialist country. “US claims of preventing Iran from manufacturing nuclear weapons fall flat in the face of an assessment by US Pres. Donald Trump’s own intelligence chief that Iran …
Eight individuals collectively referred to as the Bunawan 8, were arrested on June 13, 2025 in Bunawan, Agusan del Sur by elements of the 66th and 67th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army, and elements of the Bunawan Municipal Police. They were on board two vehicles traveling from Monkayo, Davao de Oro when they were …
GENEVA — Human rights defenders from the Philippine UPR Watch submitted an urgent letter of allegation to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, denouncing the intensifying weaponization of counterterrorism laws to attack religious groups, development organizations, and human rights defenders in the …
