Member organization: Karapatan

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 …

Give credit where credit is due: Duterte’s arrest a product of Filipino people’s collective struggle for justice and accountability-Karapatan Read More »

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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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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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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KARAPATAN condemns the imposition of de facto martial rule in the hinterlands of Mindoro and Samar that have resulted in grave human rights violations, violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) and serious disruptions in the local residents’ lives and livelihoods. “We call on the Commission of Human Rights (CHR) to look into these violations engendered …

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