Member organization: Karapatan

KARAPATAN: Reject pro-Marcos, pro-Duterte candidates and elect progressives

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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KARAPATAN: Recent Marcos memo is a blueprint for increased repression

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 on World Press Freedom Day 2025: Stop the attacks vs journos, media workers

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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Five years after, kin of EJK victims renew call for justice for Jory Porquia

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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KARAPATAN, families of desaparecidos: Surface Jonas Burgos, Dexter Capuyan, Bazoo de Jesus and all disappeared!

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 …

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KARAPATAN to Canadian gov’t: Reject notorious redtagger’s asylum bid

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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KARAPATAN exposes staged fake surrender of Alde ‘Butsoy’ Salusad, calls for abolition of E-CLIP and reward system

In a press conference last April 10, 2025, Bukidnon Police Provincial Office presented Alde “Butsoy” Salusad as a “surrendered NPA leader.” However, indigenous peoples in Mindanao know that Salusad is from the New Indigenous People’s Army for Reform (NIPAR), a paramilitary group known for sowing terror and perpetrating criminal activities in Lumad communities. NIPAR is …

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