Hustisya welcomes the opportunity to participate in yesterday’s hearing on House Bill No. 10986, the proposed Anti-Extrajudicial Killing Act, at the Committee on Justice of the House of Representatives. We welcome the authors and advocates of this bill for seeking to address the alarming prevalence of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines. However, we stress that …
KARAPATAN renewed its calls to the Committee on Justice of the House of Representatives to consider its proposals on the content of a pending bill classifying extrajudicial killings as a heinous crime, emphasizing the need to immediately pass the long overdue legislation. The House Committee on Justice, which sponsored House Bill No. 10986 in October …
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KARAPATAN deplored the double standard of treatment it observed as the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) swiftly took action in rushing moneyed and powerful persons such as detained racketeer and human trafficker Apollo Quiboloy to the Rizal Medical Center for pneumonia, and later, to a private hospital of his choice, while it dragged …
Human rights alliance KARAPATAN is in full solidarity with the People’s Protest Against Poverty, Corruption and Impunity on January 31st at Liwasang Bonifacio in Manila, as it calls on all human rights advocates to conduct protests in various parts of the country. Organized by the Taumbayan Ayaw sa Magnanakaw at Abusado Network Alliance (TAMA NA), …
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As the House of Representatives’ Quad Committee investigating Duterte’s drug war geared for its 13th hearing tomorrow, KARAPATAN reiterated its call for the committee to pursue its probe to include the extrajudicial killings of political activists by Rodrigo Duterte’s death squads. “In the Quadcomm’s past 12 hearings,” said KARAPATAN deputy secretary general Maria Sol Taule, …
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While returning US president Donald Trump took pains to distance himself from his predecessor Joe Biden during the electoral campaign, there is one striking issue where the two of them agree on: intensifying efforts to drag the Philippines into US warmongering schemes in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly against China and North Korea. Trump’s hostility towards …
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Human rights alliance KARAPATAN deplored the Marcos Jr. administration’s increased political persecution of activists, dissenters and development workers through policies reportedly required by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global body that purportedly sets international standards to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing. The FATF is slated to have a meeting with Philippine government …
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Hustisya, an organization of human rights violations victims including families of political prisoners, express our strongest condemnation of a memorandum issued by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology-National Capital Region (BJMP-NCR), dated January 10, 2025, directing the close monitoring of suspected members of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) within jails. This directive, …
KARAPATAN urged the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to address squarely the violations of human rights and international humanitarian law (IHL) evident from the testimonies gathered from across the country during its inquiry on red-tagging. Among those who gave testimonies on the first day of the CHR’s inquiry on red-tagging in Luzon on January 14, …
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KARAPATAN welcomed the Commission on Human Rights’ (CHR) continuing probe on red-tagging, as it strongly recommended the abolition of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, the repeal of repressive laws such as the Anti-Terrorism Act, and the enactment of measures recognizing and protecting human rights defenders. The inquiry, which began in …
