Today, November 30, we mark not just the birth of national hero and revolutionary Andres Bonifacio; above all, we commemorate his courageous leadership of the Katipunan and the armed revolution they waged for national liberation against Spanish colonial rule. Nevertheless, the Filipino people’s struggle for national liberation persists to this day precisely because its causes …
Karapatan renewed its call to lawmakers at the House of Representatives to pass pending resolutions urging the Marcos Jr. government to cooperate with the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) ongoing probe of the Duterte regime’s bloody anti-drug war. Meanwhile, a similar resolution has likewise been filed at the Senate by Sen. Risa Hontiveros. “This growing clamor …
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KARAPATAN welcomes the joint statement between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) affirming their commitment to discuss the framework on priorities in the peace negotiations. This development should facilitate the reaffirmation of commitments and adherence to previously signed agreements such as The Hague …
Human rights alliance Karapatan takes exception to the Marcos Jr. government’s recently announced amnesty program for its failure to recognize and address the social, political and economic roots of the armed conflict in the Philippines. Instead, its focus is on surrender, totally ignoring why persons have resorted to taking up arms in the first place. …
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Human rights alliance Karapatan welcomed the recent dismissal of the petition for certiorari filed by former and current National Security Advisers Hermogenes Esperon Jr. and Eduardo Año questioning the acquittal last January 2023 of ten human rights defenders, including seven of Karapatan’s national officers, for perjury. In dismissing Esperon and Año’s petition, Quezon City Regional …
Fourteen years after the Ampatuan massacre, rights group Karapatan said that the unabated attacks against journalists, media practitioners, and advocates of press freedom of opinion and expression be brought to the fore in the upcoming visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression come January 2024. “In all days, but especially …
Human rights alliance Karapatan joined other progressive formations today in a protest action in front of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency in Quezon City to reassert calls to junk the Anti-Terrorism Act as they condemned the Anti-Terrorism Council’s (ATC) arbitrary designation of human rights defenders and political dissenters as “terrorists.” “As we have repeatedly asserted, …
As the Office of the Prosecutor of Antipolo City dismisses the 59th Infantry Battalion’s complaint against youth activists Kenneth Rementilla and Jasmin Rubia using Republic Act 11479 or the Anti Terrorism Law, Karapatan reiterates its call for the urgent repeal of the terror law, as it is being used to violate the constitutional rights of …
Human rights alliance Karapatan urged the House of Representatives (HOR) to throw its support behind resolutions pending before the body calling on the Marcos Jr. government to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor in his bid to investigate killings related to the anti-drug war during Rodrigo Duterte’s mayoralty terms in Davao City and …
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Karapatan welcomes the dismissal of trumped up charges under RA 11479 and RA 9851 against young human rights defender Hailey Pecayo. The dismissal of the complaints of soldiers of the 59th Infantry Battalion by Office of the City Prosecutor in Sta. Rosa, Laguna exposes the fabricated lies against Pecayo and other respondents and that such …
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