Member organization: Karapatan

KARAPATAN secretary general Cristina Palabay criticized Albay Provincial Philippine National Police Director Col. Julius Añonuevo, who, in media interviews, harped on an ID card allegedly found in the house of missing activist Felix Salaveria Jr., instead of providing information on the progress of police investigations on the disappearance of Salaveria and another activist who went …

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Karapatan condemns the violent harassment by armed goons of a group of peasants belonging to the Baybay II Farmers Association in Hacienda Borromeo, Pandacan, Pinamungajan, Cebu. On September 22, 2024, armed men reportedly fired shots at and threatened to kill the peasants who are being forcefully displaced from their lands. The peasants have been tilling …

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Karapatan slammed Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and state authorities for remaining “conspicuously silent” in the face of growing indications that state forces were behind the abductions of James Jazmines and Felix Salaveria Jr. in Tabaco City, Albay on August 23 and August 28, 2024, respectively. “The tell-tale signs of state involvement in the abductions of …

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Today, on the 52nd anniversary of Marcos Sr.’s martial law, the people are faced with the gruesome prospect of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. outstripping the bloody record of the man who handed him the reins of tyranny. To a great extent, the intensifying human rights violations being perpetrated under Ferdinand Marcos Jr. have been made possible …

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KARAPATAN expresses grave concern over reports that a consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) was among three members of the New People’s Army (NPA) rendered hors de combat who were tortured and summarily killed by soldiers in Cagayan province and called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to conduct an …

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In a letter sent to the Judicial and Bar Council today, 18 September 2024, human rights alliance KARAPATAN expressed its “vehement opposition” to the reapplications of two regional trial court judges for higher positions in the judiciary. The two judges – Cecilyn Burgos-Villavert of Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 84 and Jason Zapanta of …

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KARAPATAN vehemently condemns a proposal by the Duterte Youth Partylist to reinstall the death penalty in the Philippines for plunder and heinous crimes such as murder. This proposal, if passed, will be another prime example of legislation that is brazenly anti-poor. Under a corrupt and bankrupt justice system that favors the moneyed and powerful, the …

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As the Filipino people commemorate the historic Senate vote rejecting the renewal of the US military bases agreement thirty-three years ago, we emphasize that the US government’s intervention in our affairs continues not only through the US-RP Mutual Defense Treaty and military agreements secured with succeeding regimes, but more stealthily through the Armed Forces of …

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Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was a bundle of contradictions when he spoke of his dictator-father Ferdinand Marcos Sr. in Ilocos Norte during the latter’s 107th birth anniversary. While claiming throughout his speech that the word “Filipino” best described his father, he unabashedly recounted that Ferdinand Marcos Sr. actually worked for the OSS (Office of Strategic Services, …

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