Member organization: Karapatan

Rights groups laud election of Edita Burgos as head of int’l coalition vs enforced disappearances

Human rights alliance Karapatan, and organization of families of victims of enforced disappearances, Desaparecidos, warmly congratulate Dr. Edita Burgos, D.D., for being elected as president of the International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances, a global network of organizations and individuals working to put an end to enforced disappearances. Among ICAED’s members are organizations of families of …

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KARAPATAN and Desaparecidos On The International Week Of The Disappeared

As we observe the International Week of the Disappeared from the 26th to the 31st of May, we stand in solidarity with the countless victims of enforced disappearance in the Philippines and worldwide. This despicable crime perpetrated by state agents or state-sanctioned entities that involves the abduction and clandestine detention of individuals, is a vicious …

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Grant habeas corpus petition to Prudencio Calubid Jr, Karapatan calls on CA

Karapatan assailed the continuing detention of an ailing and elderly “palit-ulo” victim arrested almost six months ago. Retired aircon technician Prudencio Calubid Jr., 81, was arrested at his home in Olongapo City on December 7, 2024 by elements of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group of the Philippine National Police (PNP-CIDG), using a warrant issued …

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KARAPATAN: 2025 polls further expose gutter-level politics in PH

The 2025 mid-term election was marked by massive electoral fraud via the automated electronic system, vote-buying and the systematic political repression of progressive candidates and partylist groups. The May 2025 polls, from the campaign to the voting, have proven once again that reactionary elections are a tool to preserve the bankrupt ruling system. They are …

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Young human rights defender to Kitty Duterte: Your father is a butcher, not a victim

“Berdugo ang tatay mo, hindi biktima (Your father is a butcher, not a victim).” KARAPATAN lambasted Veronica “Kitty” Duterte for portraying her father as a victim despite the fact that he was responsible for the misery of tens of thousands of people under his war on drugs and his brutal counter-insurgency war. “We all know …

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No to another term for Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa and Christopher “Bong” Go -SELDA

The Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners, is resolutely against another Senate term for Duterte minions Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa and Christopher “Bong” Go. Bato dela Rosa and Bong Go have toadied to their master Rodrigo Duterte for decades, publicly supporting his repressive policies that have …

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Martial law survivors: No to Imee’s second term at the Senate

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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Año, NTF-ELCAC are advancing the State’s terrorist agenda

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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