Member organization: Karapatan

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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Karapatan welcomes the acquittal of Reina Mae Nasino, Alma Moran and Ram Bautista on trumped up charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives. The decision of Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 47 Judge John Benedict Medina regarding the case bears out the assertion of the three activists – that they had no guns or …

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Nothing. In his SONA today, Marcos Jr. has literally said nothing to address significant civil and political rights issues besetting the Filipino people today. Nothing on the International Criminal Court and the significance of the complaint on crimes against humanity in the Philippines. Nothing on the extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, arrests and detention, in the …

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Corruption, impunity, myth-making and distortions of history.  These words come to mind in describing Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s first year of presidency, as he delivers his second State of the Nation Address (SONA) today.  Just days before Marcos Jr.’s SONA, we have been confronted with the bad news of another ill-gotten wealth case against the Marcoses …

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The dismissal of the motion for reconsideration filed by Rosenda Lemita, mother of slain Chai Lemita-Evangelista who is among the victims of killings during the Bloody Sunday incidents in Southern Tagalog, by Justice Department’s panel of prosecutors is another proof of the Marcos Jr. regime’s disinterest and even contempt for justice and accountability in the …

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Human rights alliance Karapatan welcomes the recent decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) rejecting the Philippine government’s motion to stop the ICC’s investigation into drug war-related killings in Davao City and under former president Rodrigo Duterte’s regime. It is high time that the ICC investigation proceeds without a hitch so that the victims of …

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