Member organization: Karapatan

KARAPATAN condemns the entry of the Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations (COCOPEA) into the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) as a private sector representative. COCOPEA is an umbrella group of several private school organizations. Its membership in the NTF-ELCAC means that the task force’s so-called “information drives,” which are …

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KARAPATAN expressed skepticism over Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla’s newly created task force to probe extrajudicial killings (EJK) under the Duterte regime’s war on drugs. “Riddling the horizon with task forces has so far not been useful in dispensing justice for the victims,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay. “We seriously doubt that Secretary Remulla’s …

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Photo: PUP Catalyst KARAPATAN expressed its unflinching support for detained community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, who is scheduled to testify in her defense today, November 11, 2024 at Leyte Regional Trial Court Branch 45, as well as development worker Mariel Domequil and KARAPATAN human rights worker Alexander Philip Abinguna. Cumpio, a community journalist, was arrested …

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The recently concluded US elections that saw Donald Trump make a comeback as president is not expected to cause a major shift in the master-puppet relationship between the US and the Philippines. The difference between a Democrat and a Republican US president is much like the difference between two cola brands—the fizz may set them …

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Former Pres. Rodrigo Duterte has decided not to attend today’s Quad Committee (Quadcomm) hearings at the House of Representatives, saying that the investigating committee should just refer to the transcript of the Senate hearing, where he made several self-incriminating statements. Since members of the Quadcomm have announced that they have enough damning evidence against Duterte, …

KARAPATAN to HOR Quadcomm: Include probe on EJKs in Duterte’s counterinsurgency war Read More »

Today, as the Filipinos all over the country remember their dead, families of the forcibly disappeared will once again find themselves in limbo. Their loved ones’ absence somehow marks their kinship with the bereaved. But setting them apart is the absence of a body to mourn or a grave to visit. Families of the disappeared …

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