Member organization: Karapatan

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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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Rights group KARAPATAN called anew for the release of three detained activists in Tacloban City after the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression cited their cases as “emblematic of a wider pattern in cases involving red-tagging.” “We demand that the Marcos Jr. government immediately take action to release KARAPATAN human rights worker Alexander …

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