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 …
KARAPATAN throws its full support behind development workers from Ilocos who are the latest victims of the state’s weaponization of anti-terror legislation. Petronila Guzman and Lenville Salvador, board members of Kaduami (Katinnulong Daguiti Umili ti Amianan), and Myrna Zapanta, a lay worker and member of the secretariat of the Ilocos Regional Ecumenical Council (IREC), received …
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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 …
Families of desaparecidos demanded that the Marcos Jr. surface the 14 victims of enforced disappearance under his regime and implement fully the Anti Enforced and Involuntary Disappearance Law. Carrying shirts and clothes of their missing loved ones, families of the desaparecidos gathered at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani to once again urge the State to …
Kin of desaparecidos to Marcos Jr.: Surface our loved ones! Read More »
Karapatan welcomes the issuance of a temporary protection order for an activist who survived abduction earlier this year, but added that victims must also seek other means to assert their rights. In an en banc resolution dated September 9, 2024 but released yesterday, the Supreme Court took the first step in granting petitioner Francisco “Eco” …
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by Atty. VJ Topacio and Lean Porquia, sons of EJK victims under Duterte As elected representatives of the Filipino people, each of you swore an oath to uphold and defend the laws of this nation without fear or favor. These are the same laws that are meant to protect every citizen, including the thousands who …
KARAPATAN denounces the resolution of the Supreme Court (SC), which was received only on October 28, 2024, dismissing with finality the petition for the writ of amparo and habeas data filed by Karapatan, Rural Missionaries of the Philippines and Gabriela on May 6, 2019. The decision came five years after the petition was filed. The …
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Human rights alliance Karapatan disputed claims by Malacañang that the Philippines has “achieved stability and maintained peace and order without foregoing due process nor setting aside the basic human rights of any Filipino.” Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin had issued Malacañang’s statement as a rejoinder to former Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s assertion at the Senate Blue Ribbon …
KARAPATAN to Marcos Jr.: Your human rights record is not better than Duterte’s Read More »
Former president Rodrigo Duterte has turned the ongoing Senate blue ribbon committee hearing on the drug war as a platform for his usual expletive-laced rants, with support from his subalterns Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa and Robin Padilla, among others. The proceedings have become a three-ring circus. His statements on taking legal responsibility for the consequences …
KARAPATAN on the recent Senate hearing on Duterte’s drug war Read More »
