Member organization: Karapatan

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 …

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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 …

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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 »