Member organization: Karapatan

KARAPATAN on the Marcos-Duterte brawl and the people’s struggle for genuine change

The much-vaunted UniTeam of the Marcoses and Dutertes is crumbling, with both camps exchanging charges and insults in yesterday’s stand-off rallies at the Quirino Grandstand and in Davao City. On the surface, the great divide between the two warring factions is charter change (cha-cha), with the Marcos Jr. administration pushing to amend the 1987 Constitution …

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KARAPATAN lauds UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan for visiting political prisoners in Tacloban City Jail

“We are grateful that UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression Irene Khan was able to visit three political prisoners – campus journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, KARAPATAN human rights worker Alexander Philip Abinguna, and Rural Missionaries of the Philippines staff Marielle Domequil – in Tacloban City Jail today. Their unjust arrest and detention, …

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Marcos Jr.’s NTF-ELCAC, NSP pose grave dangers on freedom of expression, rights

“No amount of posturing and lies by the Marcos Jr. administration, the NTF-ELCAC and all other operators of its counter-insurgency program, can hide the dire violations of freedom of opinion and expression and the sordid human rights situation under his National Security Policy,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay, a day after UN Special Rapporteur …

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Increased use of terror law vs indigenous, environmental defenders in PH sets stage for more repression

The terrorist designation of four Cordillera human rights defenders as well as the filing of charges under Republic Act No. 11479 or the “Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020” against two women environmental defenders in Southern Tagalog, among many other numerous consecutive reported cases on the use of the terror law, sets a dangerous precedent to more …

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“Doublespeak,” Karapatan says of DOJ claim that red-tagging is not gov’t policy

“Simply doublespeak,” said KARAPATAN secretary general Cristina Palabay in reaction to the Justice Department officials’ pronouncements when asked by UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion Irene Khan if red-tagging is a policy of the Philippine government. “We are aghast when the DOJ said that it has sufficient mechanisms to address red-tagging. What …

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Lack of political will, extreme delay in delivery of justice for Doc Gerry Ortega, other EJK victims now on the Marcos Jr. administration — Karapatan

“The lack of political will, and the extreme delay in bringing to justice the killers of slain broadcaster Gerry Ortega, and in other victims of extrajudicial killings, are now on the Marcos Jr. administration,” said rights group Karapatan, as they joined environmental activists, human rights defenders and press freedom advocates in commemorating the 13th year …

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Karapatan on Malacañang’s reorganization of NICA, brgy intel network revival

Karapatan views with grave concern a proposal from an official of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to revive the barangay intelligence network (BIN) purportedly to weed out illegal drugs. This proposal has been announced before with Malacañang issued Memorandum Order No. 54 yesterday, reorganizing the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) to …

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Young women abduction survivors: NTF-ELCAC violates rights, freedom of expression and opinion in PH

“Our abduction and disappearance, as well as the experiences of the many victims of fake surrender, are testament to the policy and practice of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in stifling freedoms and violating the rights of the people. To advocate for freedom of expression and opinion is to …

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Karapatan: Marcos Jr.’s counter-insurgency program violates freedom of expression, opinion

“The Ferdinand Marcos Jr. administration’s counter-insurgency program violates the Filipino people’s freedom of expression and opinion,” said Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay, in a meeting yesterday, January 23, 2024, of human rights and people’s organizations with UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression Irene Khan. …

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Rights group denounces killings, threats vs peasant leader, activists

KARAPATAN condemns the escalating attacks against peasant activists and leaders perpetrated by State security forces. On January 17, 2024, two peasant activists were gunned down in Negros Occidental by elements of the 62nd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army. According to reports reaching Karapatan, Dionisio Baloy, 67, a member of the Kaisahan sa Gamay’ng Mag-uuma …

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