Member organization: Karapatan

Solidarity message to the 54th anniversary of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines

Cristina Palabay, Karapatan Secretary General, August 25, 2023 Love that is real and active! I read the said line in publications of the Rural Missionaries in the Philippines in Northern Mindanao more than a decade ago, and I can’t get enough of the essence and the reality of that line that is the history and …

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Rights group slams police complaint vs artists on effigy burning

Human rights alliance Karapatan called on the Anonas Police Station to “stop hiding behind their fake concern for the environment and public health” as the group called for the junking of the complaint filed by Police Staff Sergeant Mario Sembrano and Police Corporal Paolo Navarro against against progressive artist Max Santiago and three staff of …

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Spate of threats continues following release of Marcos Jr.’s national security policy 

Photo by Darren Langit/Rappler “The new national security policy (NSP) further enables threats, including redtagging and vilification, against rights defenders and activists,” said human rights alliance Karapatan, as it condemned the recent spate of incidents following Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s approval of the NSP 2023-2028.  Warning that the NSP, signed on August 10, 2023 …

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Karapatan slams killing in Navotas City, decries absence of justice in killings of Zara Alvarez and Randy Echanis

Photo by Lucky Dela Rosa/Philippine Collegian August 16, 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan condemned the killing by policemen in Navotas City of a minor two weeks ago even as it decried the absence of justice in the killings of its human rights worker Zara Alvarez and peace consultant Randall Echanis.  Seventeen-year-old Jemboy Baltazar was shot …

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Karapatan Monitor for April to June 2023

Publications, Stats and Resources / By / March 13, 2024

FERDINAND MARCOS JR.: Successor of His Father’s Reign of Terror and Copy-Cat of Duterte’s Malicious BrutalityMarcos Jr.’s First Year of TerrorAFTER A YEAR IN POWER and fashioning himself like his father, Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has proven to be a virtual clone of his predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte. Extrajudicial killings (EJKs), which were markers of the …

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Bombings, other IHL violations to escalate as BBM unveils NSP 2023-2028

Photo from Amihan August 15, 2023 The issuance by Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the National Security Policy (NSP) 2023-2028 bodes ill for the people’s human rights and signals the further escalation of bombings and other grave violations of international humanitarian law (IHL). Already, the issuance of the NSP, whose avowed purpose is to “address national …

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Rights group lambasts proposal to increase Office of the President’s travel, confidential, intel funds

Photo from Bulatlat August 5, 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan lambasted the Marcos Jr. administration’s proposal to increase the president’s travel funds, and the continued allocation of confidential funds in the offices of the president and vice president. “The Marcos Jr. government’s callousness and ruthlessness are beyond belief, amid the people’s clear demands to at …

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Karapatan chairperson, former RMP coordinator file comments vs Esperon petition

Two human rights defenders scored former National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. for attempting to violate their right against double jeopardy by calling on the Regional Trial Court to reverse their acquittal for perjury last January 2023. Elisa Tita Lubi, chairperson of human rights alliance Karapatan, and Sr. Elenita Belardo, RGS of the Rural Missionaries …

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