The Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA) strongly opposes a second term for Imee Marcos at the Senate. Imee Marcos, an unabashed apologist for her dictator-father, believes, contrary to historical fact, that martial law is a panacea to the country’s ills, including high rice prices. When confronted with martial law atrocities, however, …
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Claiming that the armed insurgency is nearing defeat, National Security Adviser and NTF-ELCAC vice chair Eduardo Año has broadcast his agency’s intentions to inflict the final blow by escalating the persecution of what they view as the legal infrastructure of the armed revolution. Año made these pronouncements in an article entitled “An Insurgency-Free Philippines is …
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Karapatan called on the public to reject senatorial candidates who have been rabidly advancing the self-serving and corrupt interests of the Marcos and Duterte cliques and elect progressive candidates and partylist groups with proven track records of standing for the people’s democratic interests. The human rights alliance viewed with alarm recent survey results showing that …
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Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s recently issued Memorandum Circular No. 83, which adopts and orders the immediate implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) for Unity, Peace and Development 2025-2028, is a blueprint for intensified political repression as it calls for strengthening the notorious National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), amid mounting calls …
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KARAPATAN is in solidarity with Filipino journalists and media workers as they mark World Press Freedom Day today, the 3rd of May 2025. Filipino media workers and journalists continue to be under attack by State forces, with the latest cases involving the weaponization of laws against media practitioners. Tacloban City-based community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio …
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As the country commemorates International Workers’ Day on the 1st of May, KARAPATAN salutes Filipino workers for their continuing struggle to advance the rights of the working class in the Philippines. Workers who actively advocate for their rights have always been in the crosshairs of the repressive State in cahoots with greed-driven big business interests. …
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Hustisya, an organization of families of victims of extrajudicial killings and all human rights violations, remembers with outrage the brutal killing of Bayan Muna-Iloilo coordinator Jory Porquia who was shot 14 times in his rented cottage in Iloilo City in the early morning of April 30, 2020. Forty-two activists who staged an indignation rally a …
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Families of victims of enforced disappearances in the Philippines expressed optimism on the results of their meeting with members of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (UN WGEID), calling it an important step in addressing as urgent the rising cases of enforced disappearances in the Philippines. The UN WGEID “serves as a …
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Today, the 28th of April 2025, Karapatan and Desaparecidos mark the anniversaries of the forcible disappearances of Jonas Burgos, Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz Jamil “Bazoo” de Jesus with renewed calls that they be surfaced and their abductors held accountable. Today also marks the commencement of the session of the UN Working Group on Enforced …
Karapatan vehemently opposes the application for asylum of infamous red-tagger and self-proclaimed communist rebel Jeffrey Celiz. Despite his vociferous defense of state repression and mockery of human rights violations victims, Celiz has the gall to claim that he is being persecuted in the Philippines and is seeking asylum in Canada. Celiz has repeatedly spread false …
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