The Dutertes are disgustingly portraying themselves as victims after the arrest of Rodrigo Duterte pursuant to the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s issuance of an arrest warrant against him for crimes against humanity. “The Dutertes may whine all they want, but they will never look credible playing the victim card in the face of the pain …
Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s press conference after Rodrigo Duterte’s departure for The Hague cavalierly described the former president’s arrest as the culmination of a process that began in 2017, when Duterte was first investigated by prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity. “Of course, Marcos Jr. downplays the tenacity and courage of …
Karapatan welcomes the arrest of Rodrigo Duterte as a long overdue product of the Filipino people’s campaign for justice and accountability. Duterte should be made accountable for the extrajudicial killings in the drug war as well as the extrajudicial killings of activists and revolutionaries who had been rendered hors de combat. Both his anti-drug war …
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Karapatan condemns the incessant red-tagging of four Cordilleran activists by the Joint Task Unit (JTU) “Panagkaykaysa” under the 5th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army. The activists continue to be red-tagged despite the passage of a Baguio City ordinance prohibiting red-tagging and in spite of a Supreme Court ruling that states that red-tagging constitutes a …
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A deeper probe into Vice President Sara Duterte’s misuse of confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) from December 2022 to September 2023 has revealed more dubious recipients. “Xiaome Ocho,” obviously taken from the name of a cellphone model, joins “Mary Grace Piattos,” “Jay Kamote”, “Miggy Mango” and more than a thousand others found to be without …
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Tanggol Bayi, an association of women human rights defenders, joins other women’s rights activists and advocates of women’s liberation in expressing solidarity for all women victims of political repression, especially victims of extrajudicial killing, involuntary disappearance, sexual violence, abduction, torture and unjust arrest and imprisonment. We are likewise …
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KARAPATAN expresses its utmost solidarity with the workers of Nexperia Philippines Inc. who are on the third day of their strike, as we call on the public to show their support for striking workers and their families. Nexperia, a Netherlands-owned semiconductor giant located at the Light Industry and Science Park (LISP) in Cabuyao, Laguna, has …
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Tanggol Bayi, an organization of women human rights defenders, joins activists from KARAPATAN, Samahan ng Ex-detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), the Free Amanda Echanis Movement, Tanggol Magsasaka, Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women, GABRIELA, Kilusang Mayo Uno, Bai Indigenous Women’s Network, and˰the Ecumenical Women’s Forum in renewing the call to release women political …
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KARAPATAN expressed alarm over the growing incidents of red-tagging, villification and outright threats against progressive candidates, their campaigners and supporters coming on the heels of the issuance by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) of Resolution No. 1116 prohibiting acts associated with red-tagging. The spurt in red-tagging incidents also comes after a recent nationwide inquiry by …
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KARAPATAN condemned the aerial strafing of peasant and indigenous communities in Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro perpetrated by the 4th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (IBPA) and the 203rd Infantry Brigade on March 1, 2025, saying this violates the principle of distinction in international humanitarian law which provides that parties to an armed conflict must “at …
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