Member organization: Karapatan

KARAPATAN slams arbitrary arrests, threats ahead of EDSA People Power 1 commemoration

“The arbitrary arrests and unjust detention of Filipinos under the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. regime show that the same forms of injustice that the Filipino people rose up against 38 years ago continue,” said KARAPATAN Secretary General Cristina Palabay, as the group condemned the unjust arrests and detention of persons ahead of the People Power 1 …

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KARAPATAN on the SC decision on petition for legal protection of Castro, Tamano

KARAPATAN welcomes the Supreme Court’s issuance of the writs of amparo and habeas data, as well as the temporary protection order granted to young environmental activists Jonila Castro and Jhed Reiyana Tamano. We note and appreciate the SC’s views on the existence of elements of enforced disappearance in the case and the established violation or …

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Killing of elderly couple in Masbate testament to the murderous reign of Marcos Jr. regime, AFP – KARAPATAN

“We strongly condemn the murder of elderly couple Pedro and Florencia Regala in Masbate, and demand that justice be immediately served for the two farmers, a testament to the Marcos Jr. regime and the AFP’s murderous reign,” said KARAPATAN secretary general Cristina Palabay. Pedro Regala, 78, and his wife, Florencia Regala, 67, were in their …

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KARAPATAN: #IkulongSiDigong

While there are unconfirmed reports on a warrant of arrest against former President Rodrigo Duterte, KARAPATAN believes that steps to make him and his co-conspirators accountable for grave human rights violations, through international or domestic mechanisms, are long overdue and that any effort towards redress should be done immediately. Official police records put the number …

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KARAPATAN on NTF-ELCAC, Imee Marcos’ statements regarding UNSR Khan’s findings

First, it was national security adviser Eduardo Año and officials of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) who denounced UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan for calling for the abolition of the NTF-ELCAC. This time around, it is Sen. Imee Marcos who joins the fray, questioning Ms. Khan’s recommendation to do …

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REJECTION OF CALLS TO ABOLISH NTF-ELCAC FURTHER EXPOSES MARCOS JR.’S FASCIST BLUEPRINT IN PH

The Marcos Jr. regime’s rejection of UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression Irene Khan’s initial recommendations on the abolition of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), as well as its deceitful prospective renaming of the notorious task force further expose its intent and design to inflict fascist …

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KARAPATAN welcomes UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan’s recom to abolish NTF-ELCAC

Human rights alliance Karapatan welcomes the significant initial findings of UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression Irene Khan during her ten-day official visit in the Philippines. We thank Ms. Khan for the meetings she had with civil society and people’s organizations, survivors, victims and their kin, representatives of peasant and indigenous communities, …

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Filipina rights defenders to UNSR Irene Khan: Support our plight amidst attacks on freedom of expression and human rights

“We hope that UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression Irene Khan will support our calls to achieve justice and push back against attacks on freedom of expression, press freedom, and human rights in the country.” Tanggol Bayi, a network of women human rights defenders in the Philippines, made the statement as they …

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Karapatan on recent NTF-ELCAC’s statements on abducted environmental activists, red-tagging

It is no surprise that the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has welcomed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recommendation to file grave oral defamation charges against environmental activists Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro. Obviously, the NTF-ELCAC could not live down the fact that Jhed and Jonila were able to turn …

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KARAPATAN: CHR, rights committees of HoR and Senate should probe whistleblowers’ revelations vs Duterte et. al.

KARAPATAN urges the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and the House of Representatives and Senate human rights committees to conduct thoroughgoing investigations in view of the revelations by whistleblowers Arturo Lascañas and Edgar Matobato that former president Rodrigo Duterte, his daughter Sara and cronies Ronald dela Rosa and Christopher “Bong” Go and others in Duterte’s …

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