Today, December 2nd, marks the fourth year of the unjust arrest of peasant organizer Amanda Echanis, who was arrested under the Duterte regime in Baggao, Cagayan alongside her then month-old baby and slapped with a trumped-up case of illegal possession of firearms and explosives. Under the Marcos Jr. regime, another woman peasant organizer, Desiree Jaranilla …
KARAPATAN today scored the Marcos administration’s “hypocrisy” as it prepares to adopt a National Human Rights Action Plan (NHRAP) this month, in time for International Human Rights Day on December 10. The Marcos government has touted the NHRAP as an initiative that shows its “significant commitment to uphold human rights standards.” On November 22, 2024, …
KARAPATAN called “laughable” reports that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is considering charging Vice President Sara Duterte of violating the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 (ATA), as the human rights group said that “the real purveyors of State terrorism are now at each other’s throats.” “This shows how the terror law could arbitrarily be weaponized against …
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KARAPATAN renewed its call for the abolition of the Confidential and Intelligence Funds (CIF) after resource persons revealed during the latest hearing of the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability that Vice President Sara Duterte had ordered her Special Disbursement Officer to turn over more than PhP200 million in CIF of the Office …
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Tanggol Bayi, an association of women human rights defenders, joins other activists and women’s rights advocates in a prayer gathering and protest action at the Department of Justice to call for an end to the use of terror laws against women human rights defenders in the Philippines. Several women human rights defenders and activists have …
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KARAPATAN condemns Vice President Sara Duterte’s desperate stunts, and the constant badgering of ACT Teachers Partylist Rep. France Castro that she does during the process, as the former tries to weasel her way out of the Congressional investigation on her anomalous use of hundreds of millions of pesos worth of Confidential and Intelligence Funds (CIF) …
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Dear colleagues, We are sharing with you below the Statement of Unity by the recently launched Duterte Panagutin Campaign Network. The initiators of the network are the following: Mo. Mary John Mananzan, OSB, Movement Against Tyranny; former Sen. Leila de Lima; former Comm. Karen Gomez-Dumpit; former Rep. Teddy Casino, Bayan Chairperson; Edita Burgos, Karapatan Vice …
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KARAPATAN supports calls by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) and other press freedom advocates for justice for the victims of the Ampatuan massacre. The massacre on November 23, 2009, considered by the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) as the single deadliest event for journalists since it began monitoring such incidents …
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KARAPATAN condemns the reported incidents of threats, harassment and intimidation against peasant leaders and activists in Tarlac, Iloilo and La Union. In Tarlac, on November 17, 2024, a day after the commemoration of the Hacienda Luisita Massacre, six soldiers accompanied by military agent Florida “Pong” Sibayan went to the house of local youth activist RV …
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Karapatan welcomes the communication to the Philippine government sent by five UN mandate holders on their “deep concern” over the criminalization of 27 development workers of the Community Empowerment Resource Network Inc. (CERNET), a Cebu-based development NGO servicing the whole of the Visayas, who face trumped up terrorism and terrorist financing cases. The letter was …
