September 28, 2023 Karapatan denounces the filing of another case citing violations of Republic Act No. 10168 or the Anti-Terrorism Financing and Prevention Act against development workers of the Community Empowerment and Resource Network (CERNET) as yet again another clear and unequivocal example on how counter-terror legislation in the Philippines is being used to violate …
Photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat September 25, 2023 The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) marked the 51st anniversary of martial law by brutally killing eight individuals in two separate incidents in Negros Occidental and Masbate, in full contravention of International Humanitarian Law (IHL). On September 21, farmer couple Jover and Aimee Villegas were gunned down by …
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September 24, 2023 Karapatan sounds the alarm on the disturbing trends that further illustrate the dire inadequacy, of domestic accountability mechanisms, or lack thereof, in the Philippines, amid the recently-issued rulings of the Ombudsman and the Court of Appeals and the worsening human rights situation in the country. We are incensed with the recent decisions …
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As we mark the 51st anniversary of the declaration of martial law today, we recall a time of widespread repression and terror, where the voices of the people were silenced and their rights trampled upon. Dangling the communist bogey, the dictator Marcos Sr.’s martial law saw at least 3,257 extrajudicially killed, 35,000 tortured, 70,000 unjustly …
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Photo by Jam Sta. Rosa/Agence France-Presse September 20, 2023 Now that the truth is out, Karapatan demands that everyone involved in the abduction, enforced disappearance and fake surrender of environmental activists Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano be held accountable, especially the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) whose malicious and baseless …
Photo from NNARA-Youth September 19, 2023 In what is rapidly becoming a sinister pattern, two individuals were abducted on September 15, 2023 by suspected State agents in Negros Occidental. A Facebook post by Negros alternative media outfit Paghimutad reported that Bea Lopez, a 26-year-old peasant organizer and resident of Sitio Langud, Brgy. Camalandaan, Cauayan, Negros …
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Photo from AlterMidya September 19, 2023 Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano have spoken the truth, despite the coerced situation that they are in – they have declared they were abducted by the military, that they did not surrender and they were held inside a military camp, under pressure and under duress, making all the claims …
September 16, 2023 Today’s press conference by the National Task Force to End Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) confirms what we have been stated as a stark possibility — that State actors are involved in the disappearance of Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano, two environmental activists who were reported missing …
Photo from the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers September 15, 2023 Karapatan condemns the brutal killing of a woman lawyer in Abra yesterday afternoon. Atty. Saniata Alzate was shot dead by gunmen riding in tandem on a motorcycle while she was in her car that was parked in front of her house in Bangued, Abra. …
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Photo from Office of the Ombudsman/Facebook September 12, 2023 Karapatan views with grave concern Ombudsman Samuel Martires’ statements in yesterday’s budget deliberations which call for greater opaqueness rather than transparency in government transactions. This, at a time when we are being buffeted by reports of graft, massive corruption in high places and misuse and abuse …
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