Karapatan welcomes the guilty verdict pronounced by the International People’s Tribunal (IPT) against the US-directed Duterte and Marcos Jr. regimes for grave violations of human rights and international humanitarian law against the Filipino people. The IPT, a quasi-judicial body comprising renowned international jurors and legal experts convened on May 17-18 in Brussels, Belgium to try …
Southern Tagalog activist Hailey Pecayo’s testimony before the International People’s Tribunal (IPT) speaks of the unjustness and arbitrariness by which the regime of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. accuses human rights defenders and other political activists of violating anti-terror and terrorist financing laws. At 19, Hailey Pecayo serves as the spokesperson of Tanggol Batangan, a provincial alliance …
KARAPATAN decries the filing of trumped-up terrorist financing charges against the Community Empowerment and Resource Network (CERNET) and 28 individuals currently or previously in its council, board or staff. Founded in 2001, CERNET is a Cebu-based development NGO that has consistently worked alongside grassroots organizations to alleviate poverty in marginalized communities in the Visayas. It …
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Karapatan assails Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s rank hypocrisy and denialism in claiming that the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) should not be dismantled because it supposedly does not engage in red-tagging and is therefore not accountable for the ensuing human rights violations that red-tagging victims suffer. Marcos Jr. made the statement …
Jonila Castro’s testimony at the International People’s Tribunal speaks of one of the most alarming trends under the regime of Ferdinand Marcos Jr.–that of the fast-growing number of enforced disappearances. From 20 victims of forced disappearances throughout Duterte’s six-year term, there are now 11 victims still missing less than two years into Marcos Jr.’s presidency. …
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Through Administrative Order No. 22, Malacanang has just created a “special committee on human rights coordination” in a desperate attempt to window-dress the grave human rights situation in the country. Touted as a new mechanism that comes after the UN Joint Program on human rights in the Philippines, Marcos Jr.’s human rights coordinating council is …
Rights group Hustisya trooped to the Court of Appeals to support the Manalo brothers in filing their reply to the comment of the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG), arguing that the nonconformity of the OSG should not bar the CA from giving due course to the petition. The Malolos RTC rendered a Joint Decision …
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KARAPATAN views the recently published Supreme Court En Banc decision partially granting the writ of amparo of activist Siegfred Deduro as an important legal decision recognizing the dangerous consequences of red-tagging, vilification, and labelling. These dangerous practices of State security forces have long threatened the lives, security and liberty of scores of human rights activists, …
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Through Administrative Order No. 22, Malacanang has just created a “special committee on human rights coordination” in a desperate attempt to window-dress the grave human rights situation in the country. Touted as a new mechanism that comes after the UN Joint Program on human rights in the Philippines, Marcos Jr.’s human rights coordinating council is …
Human rights alliance KARAPATAN decried the recent freezing of the bank accounts of a multi-awarded development non-government organization based in Leyte province. In an order dated May 2, 2024, the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) ordered the Tacloban branches of PSBank and Metropolitan Bank to freeze the accounts of the Leyte Center for Development Inc. (LCDe), …
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