Member organization: Karapatan

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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“All lies and delusions” Karapatan Central Visayas slams of PTFOMS on “satisfactory” state of freedom of expression and HR in the region

Karapatan Central Visayas slams the lies and delusions declared by Atty. Hue Jyro Go, Chief of Staff for the Presidential Task Force on Media Security, during their meeting with UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan yesterday last January 29. The people’s growing movement is in stark contrast to what the fascist institution parroted. The Police Regional …

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Environmental activists Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro write to UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan

Dear friends, We are sharing this letter by environmental activists Jhed Reiyanna Tamano and Jonila Castro to the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression Irene Khan. Please see attached copy as well as the inline text of the letter below. Thank you very much. Karapatan Public Information Desk Dear Ms. Irene Khan, …

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Charges vs green activists Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro, an attack on freedom of expression – Karapatan

“We deplore the Department of Justice’s resolution to press grave oral defamation charges against environmental defenders Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro. This is an attack on freedom of expression in the country, where victims of rights violations are persecuted for speaking the truth,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay on what they called as another …

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Kin of victims of rights violations, abduction survivors in Visayas to Special Rapporteur Khan: Justice is elusive under the Marcos Jr. regime

Relatives of slain activists and a mother of a detained political prisoner, along with abduction survivors and union organizers April Dyan Gumanao and Armand Dayoha and leaders of people’s organizations, met with UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan today in Cebu, as they pointed out the role of State security forces, including the NTF-ELCAC, in the …

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