Member organization: Karapatan

Photo from Teddy Casiño October 24, 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan expressed its “full support” for ACT Teachers Partylist Rep. France Castro in filing a complaint of grave threats against former Pres. Rodrigo Duterte at the Prosecutor’s Office in Quezon City.  In an interview at the Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI) last week, Duterte had …

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Photo from the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers October 23, 2023 Lawyers for brothers Raymond and Reynaldo Manalo are set to file a motion for reconsideration today, October 23, 2023, before the Malolos Regional Trial Court Branch Branch 19, hoping that the court’s acquittal of former Maj. Gen. Jovito “The Butcher” Palparan and his five …

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Photo by Lucky Dela Rosa/Philippine Collegian October 20, 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan condemned what it called a “disturbing pattern of extrajudicial killings, arrest and harassment” committed by the Philippine military and the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in various parts of the country. Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay cited …

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Photo by Kilusang Mayo Uno October 16, 2023 More than two weeks after the killing of labor organizer Jude Thaddeus Fernandez, rights alliance Karapatan demanded that video footages from the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) operatives’ body-worn cameras in its September 29, 2023 operation be produced and released. “We call on independent …

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Photo from AlterMidya October 15, 2023 After Congress turned down the proposed allocation of confidential and intelligence funds to the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and the Department of Education (DepEd), rights alliance Karapatan said this should also prompt the legislative branch to completely abolish such funds and rechanelled to social services, instead of …

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Photo by Jam Sta. Rosa/Agence France-Presse September 29, 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan expressed strong support for surfaced environmental defenders Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro as they filed their petition for the writs of amparo and habeas data at the Supreme Court through their lawyers, and urged the high court to grant the petition immediately. …

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