Vice President Sara Duterte’s contempt for transparency in accounting for the PhP125 million confidential and intelligence funds of her office in 2023 is in full display during the budget hearings at the House of Representatives and the Senate. She employed “squid (pusit)” tactics and insolence to evade direct responses to questions from the Makabayan representatives …
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KARAPATAN raises grave concern about the safety and welfare of former political prisoner Rowena Dasig who has been missing since August 22, 2024, her alleged release from the Lucena City District Jail (LCDJ). Rowena, or “Owen” as her friends call her, is a youth activist and environmental defender who was arrested with fellow activist Miguela …
Desaparecidos (Families of the Disappeared for Justice) assails the virtual banning from commercial screening of the award-winning documentary film “Alipato at Muog” about the abduction and disappearance of activist Jonas Burgos on April 28, 2007. With this ban, Desaparecidos urges everyone who has not yet seen “Alipato at Muog” to watch it at its special …
KARAPATAN denounces the X-rating classification given by the Movie, Television Ratings and Classification Board (MTRCB), during its first review, to award-winning documentary film “Alipato at Muog” by Jose Luis “JL” Burgos about the abduction and disappearance of his brother, activist Jonas Burgos in April 2007. The X-rating, which prohibits the film’s viewing in commercial theaters …
Agosto 19, 2022 nang dukutin at paslangin ng mga elemento ng 2nd Infantry Battalion ng Philippine Army (IBPA) ang magpinsan na sina Mario Espereguerra at Renante Capareno sa Sitio Guintariban, Brgy. Piña, San Jacinto, Ticao, Masbate. Mariing kinukundena ng Hustisya (Pagkakaisa ng mga Biktima para sa Hustisya) ang rehimeng Marcos Jr. dahil dalawang taon na …
KARAPATAN condemns the mounting human rights violations in civilian communities where soldiers conducting so-called focused military operations have had a prolonged presence. In San Jose del Monte (SJDM), Bulacan, troops of the 80th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (IBPA) have been conducting saturation drives for the past two months against residents of Barangays San …
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August is commemorated in the Philippines as International Humanitarian Law (IHL) month. Yet some of the most horrific violations of IHL have occurred in the month of August. On August 19, 2022, Benito Tiamzon, a member of the National Democratic Front (NDFP) negotiating panel, and Wilma Austria-Tiamzon, an NDFP consultant, were intercepted in Catbalogan, Samar …
Karapatan condemns the violent dispersal of a rally held by delegates to the 57th General Assembly of Student Councils (GASC) held on August 16, 2024 a few meters outside the University of the Philippines (UP) campus in Tacloban City. The students demanded academic freedom, a stop to the militarization of UP Tacloban, and the release …
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Mariing kinukundina ng Hustisya, organisasyon ng mga kaanak ng biktima ng extrajudicial killings at iba pang paglabag sa karapatang pantao, ang kasalukuyang rehimen ni Ferdinand Marcos Jr. sa kawalan nito ng aksyon para seryoso at lubusang panagutin si Rodrigo Duterte sa malawakang pamamaslang at paglabag sa karapatang pantao sa panahon ng panunungkulan nito bilang pangulo …
Pahayag ng Hustisya sa ika-4 na taon matapos ang pagpaslang kay Zara Alvarez Read More »
It is four years to the day since Zara Alvarez was gunned down in Bacolod City, the 13th human rights worker from Karapatan to have been killed under the Duterte regime. A fierce and dedicated human rights worker, Zara had been jailed on trumped-up charges which were eventually dismissed, red-tagged by a vigilante group with …
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