Member organization: Karapatan

Karapatan calls on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to pull all stops and cooperate instead with the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) ongoing investigation of the thousands of killings under the Duterte drug war. Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla had just announced that his department was studying the possibility of charging Duterte with violating International Humanitarian …

KARAPATAN to DOJ: Cooperate with ICC to prosecute Duterte on drug war-related EJKs, probe IHL violations in Duterte’s war vs dissenters Read More »

KARAPATAN fully supports the families of victims of the Bloody Sunday massacre of 2021 as they urged the Congressional Quad committee investigating the killings under Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drug war to look into the extrajudicial killings (EJK) of their loved ones and other activists. Rosenda Lemita, mother of Ana Mariz Lemita-Evangelista and Liezel Asuncion, wife of …

Kin of Bloody Sunday victims press House Quadcom: Probe Duterte regime’s accountability in the killing of our loved ones Read More »

KARAPATAN joins peasant rights advocates and other human rights defenders in marking the 20th anniversary of the Hacienda Luisita massacre that claimed the lives of at least seven persons and caused injuries to more than a hundred. Also arrested and detained were 133 persons, including 16 women and two minors, who were charged with physical …

KARAPATAN: Justice for Hacienda Luisita Massacre victims! Read More »

Hustisya, an organization of families and friends of victims of extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations, joins the family and colleagues as well as environmental defenders in demanding justice for slain botanist Leonardo Co, even as they decry the glaring injustice in the government’s continuing failure to hold his killers accountable. Co, who led …

Kin, friends of EJK victims continue the call for justice for botanist Leonard Co Read More »

KARAPATAN strongly condemns the reported killing of a youth in Northern Samar by soldiers. Jerick Jugal, a resident of Barangay Sulitan, Catubig town was allegedly killed with another individual in an encounter between the 20th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (IBPA) and the New People’s Army (NPA) on November 5, 2024 in Catubig. As …

Rights group condemns EJK of civilians in Northern Samar Read More »

Cora Jazmines, wife of James Jazmines, represented by the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL); and Gabreyel and Felicia Ferrer, daughters of Felix Salaveria Jr., represented by La Viña, Zarate and Associates, impleaded Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin in separate petitions for writs of amparo and habeas data, to demand that …

Kin of missing activists to SC: Marcos Jr. should surface James Jazmines and Felix Salaveria Jr. Read More »

Now that we have heard more of the same self-incriminating statements from former Pres. Rodrigo Duterte in his testimonies before the Quad Committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate, it is time for Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to take the decisive step of working and coordinating with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to …

KARAPATAN to Marcos Jr., ICC: Arrest Duterte Read More »

KARAPATAN welcomes the probe on red-tagging in Mindanao held on November 11 and 12, 2024 by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR). The activity is part of a series of the public inquiry on red-tagging being conducted by the CHR in different areas of the country that began in July 2024. In Southern Mindanao, ten …

Victims, kin recount harrowing tales of rights violations at CHR redtagging probe in Mindanao Read More »

Karapatan joined environmental rights activists and other human rights defenders in expressing support for Francisco “Eco” Dangla who will be attending his first hearing at the Court of Appeals on his petition for writs of amparo and habeas data today, November 12, 2024. Dangla and his companion, fellow environmental activist Joxelle “Jak” Tiong, were abducted …

Rights group supports environmental activist’s plea for legal protection Read More »